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Should have handled a lot of things differently. >> privacy issues are nothing new for facebook. they faced major backlash from users since its news feed debuted in 2006. in 2011, facebook faced an eight-count complaint from the federal grade commission. they mishandled data. the company entered an agreement including financial penalties if it violated the decree. in 2014 researcher alex ander cogen released his personality app. this is your digital app on facebook. 270,000 users took the quiz but data was captured from their friends list as well. the data was sold to political consulting firm...

Of disregard for user privacy. the company accused of handing over data on millions of users to an app that only 270,000 people actually opted into. that means if you had a friend who used the app, your information may have been captured. the company says it'll notify users if their data was captured by cogan's personality app. in reality, there is nothing that can be done to get it back. this happened years ago. they didn't offer to do it for you. they're offering to do it for you after they were exposed by journalists. on "morning joe," connecticut senator blumenthal addressed zuckerberg's r...

App developer, cogan, who built in personality app, bunch of people used it and the data was sold to cambridge analytica. that's against the policy. you can't share data in a way that people don't know or don't c consent to. we immediately banned that app. we asked for a formal certification that they had none of the data in the facebook community. they deleted it if they had it, and they weren't using it. they provided the certification. >> why does it take a big media report to get that proactive approach? >> well, i don't know about you, but i was a -- i'm used to when people legally certif...