Facebook said the company had received invitations to testify before Congress and that they were talking to legislators. Cambridge Analytica said it had not shared any of the Facebook profile data with AggregateIQ. Cambridge Analytica has said it did not use Facebook data in Trump’s campaign, and that it had deleted all Facebook data it obtained from a third-party app in 2014 after learning the information did not adhere to data protection rules. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologised over a 'breach of trust', taking out full page advertisements in British newspapers after British data consultant 'Cambridge Analytica' had created psychological profiles on data from 50 million users. The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee and US Senate Commerce Committee had already formally asked Zuckerberg to appear at a congressional hearing.

Source: New Strait Times March 27, 2018 23:03 UTC