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Against this backdrop, Ms McEvoy says that many companies in Silicon Valley are hiring ethical consultants. However, as users of Facebook, we understand our right to privacy. Besides politicians, privacy advocates are also disturbed by Zuckerberg's comments.

A lot has been written about Facebook over recent weeks, with the coverage reaching a crescendo early this week following Mark Zuckerberg's ten hours of congressional testimony.

However, critics have expressed skepticism.

"If the case that happened in Myanmar where the Rohingya case occurred because of Facebook [happens here], therefore I have no hesitation to shut them down from Indonesia!"

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The wholesale, planet-wide exploitation of personal data has dark implications, Tufekci said: "We could enter into a phase of "surveillance authoritarianism, ' where we don't face (George Orwell's) '1984" model, where there's open totalitarianism, where we're dragged off in the middle of the night".

The government used the same law as a pretext when requesting that Facebook restrict 1,823 pieces of content in the year following the coup.

"It's always been like this unfortunately", said Mr Hardy. "We do not want to tax companies twice", he said.

"I think the jury's still out", she said.

Rodgers said other sites like Twitter and LinkedIn don't use "that sort of deep, personal data", while they focus more on what's happening on their platforms with keyword searches and hashtags.

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According to a joint report by AP and NBC News, the original data was collected by an academic researcher, Aleksander Kogan, through a personality quiz Facebook app called "This is Your Digital Life".

"Mobile devices really are general objective computers", said Mr Hardy. They have very personal information available about you.

Among the outfits political advertisers are using to develop the custom lists of users is TargetSmart, a Washington-based consulting firm. It is also possible for attackers to use stored data, he adds. But with all the negative consumer sentiment swirling around the company of late, the travel industry is closely watching how Facebook's users are responding.

Zuckerberg said he believes the company collects "different data for those" and would follow up with further details - a line he frequently fell back on when he didn't provide a direct answer.

Facebook allows only children above 13 to have an account, but the new app allows those in the 6-12 age group to send videos and text messages, through an extension of their parent's account.

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Some asked how Facebook gets data in the first place. The GDPR, aimed at bringing stronger data protection and more data privacy for citizens of the European Union, also has implications for United States firms that have a presence there. "The whistle was just blown but they were corrected 18 months ago, I don't think there is a need for a mad rush for businesses locally and in the region to stop advertising on Facebook because we haven't seen that reflected in how Barbadians are using the platform", he explained. Many business leaders have a false sense of security about the safety of the data they gather from customers and employees, according to Ed Correia, president and chief executive of Sagacent Technologies, a managed IT services firm in San Jose, California. "We do that for a number of reasons, including security and including measuring ads to make sure that the ad experiences are the most effective, which of course people can not doubt of (sic), but I want to make sure that I'm precise in my answer so let me follow up".