Facebook chief ready to testify before the U.S. Congress about the <x0-> scandal. Cambridge Analytica”

Zuckerberg was being interviewed for the first time since his company removed tens of billions of dollars from its value over concerns about receiving data from a US political consulting firm.

Zuckerberg has stated that in response to this scandal, Facebook will investigate applications that had access before 2014, when company policies related to access were changed, reports “Sky News” Transmission Periscope.

“We will limit access programmers to data to prevent other types of abuse. For example, we will remove access programmers to the data if you haven't had access to that app for three months,” said Zuckerberg.

“We'll reduce the data when you start writing, with the new method you'll mark your name, account photo and email address. We'll ask the programmers not only to get the go-ahead, but to sign a contract so that they can all look for access to their publications or other private data. ”

Zuckerberg for “CNN” said it would be happy to testify before the U.S. Congress about this scandal, “If it's okay, we do it” but suggested it's not very qualified to answer a number of questions.

He said it was a clear “” he trusted in 2015 Cambridge Analytica when they were promised to hide the data gathered from the world's largest social network, Facebook.

He apologized for “the violation of trust”, so he said that “I am very sorry that this happened. ”

We have a huge responsibility to protect people's data. ”/Periscopi/