Frankly based on a few video clips that I’ve seen of him doing 1 interview (not sure he granted more 1) his answers, IMO, amounted to Nothing more than rehearsed CYA talking points.

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill want answers directly from Zuckerberg. Personally, they can spare me yet another self-serving political dog-and-pony show that yields little-to-nothing more than just BS.

I’d rather Mueller find cause to subpoena Zuckerberg to meet with the Special Counsel to answer THEIR questions.

However, I am an IT Director. So if the impression is that I’m old fashion in terms of technology; I am not being clear. I love technology. I am deeply into the virtual environment and security but I loath social networking as it has developed. I am a privacy advocate and try, in vain, to tell young family members who put unflattering information about themselves on FB, or other sites, it’s a bad idea.

Already our privacy is under assault in many other ways. But so many millions, billions worldwide, often offer negative data about themselves as if they are talking only to friends or family. FB and others have managed to create an aura of discretion to some, and others simply don’t see the harm in it.

Cambridge Analytica is, in my opinion, a good example. They were not simply gaining data to market stuff to us, without our permission which is bad enough. Rather the claim was by parsing the data, and running through their proprietary algorithms they could actually manipulate our thinking on a subject.

You may say that happens at any political speech. Not so: a message put out to the masses, with general logic and broad appeals is not the same as someone targeting you and based on your health, mental health, family situation and other highly personal information. I consider that victimizing and manipulating people by leveraging information they should not have in the first place. […]

Zuckerberg, in his first comments since the company disclosed on Friday the misuse of personal data, said in a post on Facebook that the company “made mistakes, there’s more to do, and we need to step up and do it.”

Facebook’s share value has been in a tailspin as the depths of its irresponsible data handling has become known to the world. Salting that wound is a class-action lawsuit, filed today in California’s Northern district, on behalf of the social media giant’s shareholders.

Fan Yuan, the shareholder who filed the suit, accuses Facebook of making “materially false and/or misleading” claims about the company’s handling of user data—meaning the instances where Facebook or Zuckerberg himself addressed privacy and security issues and failed to disclose the ongoing Cambridge Analytica fiasco.

Yuan’s suit—which represents a class of unknown size—alleges that failures to disclose the ongoing situation with Cambridge Analytica has reduced the value of shares he and others hold in the company. He’s asking to award damages unspecified and any other amount the court deems proper. […]

H/T: CNN