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Developers. they didn't have any real vetting in place for a long time for those developers. not only that, they wouldn't just pass the data about you the user who authorized the application, the person using the app but they would also get the developer get data on the friend of the user. ali, if i was using an app and you and i were friends i could pass your data along to the developer, too, even though you hadn't explicitly said you wanted to do that. the real issue here is they need to change how their platform works. they have made some important changes already. they reduced or limited t...

Consent to place all their questions in the record. so these are a series of just yes, no questions. do you think you have a moral responsibility to run a platform that protects our democracy? >> congresswoman, yes. >> have you users of facebook who were caught up in the cambridge analytica debacle been notified? >> we're starting to notify people this week. we started monday, i believe. >> will facebook offer to all of its users a blanket opt-in to share their privacy data with any third party users? >> that's how our platform works. you have to opt in to sign in to any app before you use it....

About what it means to hand over data about private users to a government. they have to think about the sort of slippery slope aspect of this and whether or not other governments might come to facebook and say, okay, if you can hand that over to the u.s. goth, maybe you can hand this over to us in a different country. but no question that the immense, i think, public scrutiny and congressional pressure played a role here. >> have they said, facebook, have they said that they regret the way the platform was drawn into all this or saying, look, anyone can buy an ad, don't blame us? >> i think if...