Mark Zuckerberg told senators that his company had made “a lot of mistakes” ANDREW HARNIK/APMark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief, agreed last night to greater regulation of his company in response to a huge leak of personal information from the social network. He made the concession as it emerged that Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, the British political consultancy, face multiple lawsuits over the alleged misuse of data. Republican and Democrat senators threatened greater state oversight of the technology industry at a joint hearing of the Senate judiciary and commerce committees, saying that Facebook and its peers had failed to police abuses of their own platforms. Facebook is facing its biggest crisis over data leaks affecting millions of users Pablo Martinez Monsivais/APThe hearing was called after it emerged last month that the personal information of 87 million people was improperly harvested from Facebook’s social network and passed to Cambridge Analytica. The consultancy, which worked on the…

Source: The Times April 10, 2018 23:00 UTC