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today we have mr. Mark Zuckerberg chairman and CEO of Facebook incorporated here to testify before the full Energy and Commerce Committee my top priority has always been our social mission of connecting people building community and bringing the world closer together advertisers and developers will never take priority over that for as long as I'm running Facebook facebook now has evolved to a place where you are tracking everyone and you are collecting personal information on people who do not even have Facebook accounts isn't that right congresswoman I believe yes you know congresswoman I I'm not sure that I don't think that that's what we're tracking Facebook also gathers that data about where we travel isn't that correct congresswoman everyone has control over how that works I'm going to get to that but yes you are would you just acknowledge it yes Facebook is that's the business you're in gathering data and aggregating that data congresswoman I disagree with that characterization the primary way that Facebook works is that people choose to share data and they share that Facebook gathers data did you buy data from data brokers outside of the platform correct congressman we just announced two weeks ago that we were going to stop interacting with data brokers and even though that's an industry norm with your data included in the data sold to the malicious third parties your personal data yes it was as CEO you didn't know some key facts you didn't know about major court cases regarding your privacy policies against your company you didn't know that the FTC doesn't have finding authority and that Facebook could not have received fines for the 2011 consent order you didn't know what a shadow profile was you didn't know how many apps you need to audit you did not know how many other firms have been sold data by dr. Kogan other than cam bridge analytical and enoy acknowledge 'yes even though you were asked that question yesterday yes we were all paying attention yesterday you don't even know all the kinds of information Facebook is collecting from its own users I know you're still reviewing but do you know now whether there are other fourth parties that had access to the data from someone other than dr. Kogan or is this something we're gonna find out in a press release down the road congresswoman as I've said a number of times we're now going to investigate every single app that had access to a large amount of people's information in the past before we lock down the platform I do imagine that we will find some apps that that we're either doing something suspicious or misuse people's data if we find them then we will ban them from the platform take action to make sure that they delete the data and make sure that everyone involved is informed