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Mark Zuckerberg testifies at the Congress hearing in the light of the Cambridge Analytica data leak (AFP)San Francisco, United
beyond their social network use.During heated hearings in Congress last week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already explained that Facebook
collects data beyond what users share on their profiles."When you visit a site or app that uses our services, we receive information even if
you're logged out or don't have a Facebook account," product management director David Baser said in a post on the social network's
blog."This is because other apps and sites don't know who is using Facebook," he added, noting Facebook was also following up with Congress
on a few dozen questions Zuckerberg was unable to answer at the time of the hearings.Baser said "many" websites and apps use Facebook
services to target content and ads, including via the social network's Like and Share buttons, when people use their Facebook account to log
Period", says Mark Zuckerberg at the US Congress hearing (AFP)But he stressed the practice was widespread, with companies such as Google and
Twitter also doing the same."Most websites and apps send the same information to multiple companies each time you visit them," the post
said."There are three main ways in which Facebook uses the information we get from other websites and apps: providing our services to these
sites or apps; improving safety and security on Facebook; and enhancing our own products and services."I want to be clear: We don't sell
Period."Zuckerberg says Facebook "failed" to protect people's information following the use by Cambridge Analytica of data scraped from 87
million Facebook users to target political ads ahead of the 2016 US presidential election.(Except for the headline, this story has not been
edited by staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
