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Not choose to do that publicly here. >> i think that may be what this is all about. >> today for the first time ever, mark zuckerberg, the billionaire ceo of the social media giant facebook, went before congress after a succession of scandals that have called into question a business model in which that company monetized its users' very private information. so he faced questions from 43 senators over five hours. one of those senators was amy klobuchar. senator, welcome. >> thank you. >> what did you learn today? >> first of all, we learned that facebook has admitted that this is a major breach...

One of those senators was amy klobuchar. senator, welcome. >> thank you. >> what did you learn today? >> first of all, we learned that facebook has admitted that this is a major breach of trust and that mark zuckerberg believes that we should have some privacy rules in place. i think there were a lot of questions still out there. he said he would follow up with me about whether any of the information from cambridge analytica was housed in russia. it was something that the whistleblower at cambridge analytica raised on "meet the press" this weekend. he said he would follow up. as to whether or ...

Giving the senate? >> i think first of all he has said this was a major breach of trust is cl which is different what they said initially. and he has focused on privacy rules and blatantly said yeah, we may need to have privacy regulation in place. so i figure we have a product now, all of the social media plat fors that are paid platforms that are making a lot of phone and we have to make sure that the laws are sophisticated and then the people trying to violate people's privacy. so the part where he said we make money off of ads, that is true. but that didn't meoesn't mean p should have thei...

Cambridge analytica systems and make sure they remove all the data. if they don't, we're going to take legal action against them to do so. that audit, we have temporarily ceded that while the u.k. government does their investigation. we're committed to get to the bottom of this so we can have more answers to this. >> you said you would support some privacy rules so everyone's playing by the same rules here. you also said here that you should have notified customers earlier. would you support a rule that would require you to notify your users of a breach within 72 hours? >> senator, that makes ...

Than 30 million people and that it had not received more data than had this. mark zuckerberg announced yesterday that the company would offer all of its users the same tools required under european privacy rules. those rules, which go into effect next month give people more control over how people use their digital data. ahead of the facebook ceo's announcement, the house energy and commerce committee announced that he will testify before the panel on wednesday regarding the company's data scandal. hours later, the senate judiciary committee announced it will testify in front of its members th...