years now, of privacy being this stopgap, put a band a-aid on it figure it out as we go along. people think they were breaking privacy. it is interesting. it brings us to a broader point, i want to get shelby and grace in on here. on 60 minutes who we interviewed first. jo had the exclusive. who talked about this repeat offender idea. here s what he had to say. i want to play it. you ve got a company that has repeatedly had privacy scandals. it has repeatedly shown that it doesn t prioritize privacy over the years. when you think about it, put yourself in the position of, you know, if your partner was chaetichaet i cheating on you, and did it 15 times and apologized 15 times, at some point, you have to say, enough is enough. we need to make a change here. right. i think the problem here for facebook is that it almost i mean, yes, we need to know who is telling the truth here, but bottom line, facebook doesn t
broadcaster or traditional news publisher. erin, washington has welcomed changes. what about the users? the concern for the average facebook uuzbekistan faceboo user. has facebook answered this question, can they keep, as a facebook user, can they keep our information safe? i think that that is a huge question that a lot of people have. the funny thing is facebook has been answering to these privacy scandals for the last 14 years. the company has been apologizing repeatedly. any time they do something that surprises us or throws us off, people are outraged. facebook apologizes and waits a couple of weeks for it to die down and continues on with business as usual. this is the first time that it has escalated to this level. people are actually deleting facebook. so i think maybe the company is finally taking this more seriously for the first time. at least that s the hope. and molly, mark zuckerberg has come out in support of the honest ads act for stronger regulations on politic
following last week s decline the social media company has been under pressure following a series of privacy scandals. hash tag delete facebook has a new supporter lawn musk the billionaire tech maverick has now deleted the pages of his company s tesla and space x. but that s by no means the biggest blow for facebook big advertisers are jumping ship like firefox creator mozilla speaker manufacturers so knows the privacy scandal is expanding rapidly politicians the world over are raring to take action against data breaches. in the future we re going to monitor companies like facebook much more closely as well as punish data protection violations quickly severely and seriously. on friday these images of a police raid on cambridge analytical went around the world the company reportedly misused the data of fifty million facebook users to target election ads to influence the twenty sixteen u.s.
is that an excuse? it can t be. i don t buy it. i don t think that anybody who has corporate responsibility like a company like google has, i don t think they can allow something like this to go on unchecked, and i think they need to take a look at the privacy practices that the government uses in order to really better themselves in this area. scott, final question. just wrapping up here. if they can collect information and not be sanctioned for it, our personal information, why is the ftc not coming after them double barrel? i don t know. i wrote a piece just two weeks ago on google s top 35 privacy scandals. you have to have context. google does not care about people s privacy even though they say they do, and the ftc has been largely absent. they did do an ftc google buzz sanction, but other than that, google has gotten away with tons of violations. well, certainly on street view, they clearly have not been sanctioned. just for our viewers, nine
is that an excuse? it can t be. i don t buy it. i don t think that anybody who has corporate responsibility like a company like google has, i don t think they can allow something like this to go on unchecked, and i think they need to take a look at the privacy practices that the government uses in order to really better themselves in this area. scott, final question. just wrapping up here. if they can collect information and not be sanctioned for it, our personal information, why is the ftc not coming after them double barrel? i don t know. i wrote a piece just two weeks ago on google s top 35 privacy scandals. you have to have context. google does not care about people s privacy even though they say they do, and the ftc has been largely absent. they did do an ftc google buzz sanction, but other than that, google has gotten away with tons of violations. well, certainly on street view, they clearly have not been sanctioned. just for our viewers, nine