Mark Zuckerberg’s Reckoning: ‘This Is a Major Trust Issue’<br />This is a massive focus for us to make sure we’re dialed in for not only the 2018 elections in the U. S., but the Indian elections, the Brazilian elections, and a number of other elections<br />that are going on this year that are really important.<br />For any app that we uncover that has any suspicious activity, we’re going to go do a full forensic audit, and make sure we have the capacity to do that, to make sure<br />that other developers aren’t doing what Kogan did here.<br />That’s why we spent a lot of time figuring out, O. K.<br />here’s what it’s going to take to do a full investigation of every app<br />that got access to a large amount of information before we changed the platform policies to dramatically reduce the data access that developers had.<br />But I don’t think the ad model is going to go away, because I think fundamentally, it’s important to have a service like this<br />that everyone in the world can use, and the only way to do that is to have it be very cheap or free<br />Even if you solve the problem going forward, there’s still this issue of: Are there other Cambridge Analyticas out there, or other Kogans who, when the platform worked a certain way in the past, were there apps which could have gotten access to more information,<br />and potentially sold it without us knowing, or done something that violated people’s trust?<br />But it’s also just really important to put in front of people a tool of, here are all the apps you’ve connected to<br />and authorized, here’s an easy way to deauthorize them, to revoke their permission to get access to your activity.
