No significant increase in Facebook users deactivating or interaction: Zuckerberg

The Cambridge Analytica scandal in which personal data of over 87 million Facebook users, including 500,000 Indians, was compromised, has not hit the social media platform in a significant way in terms of people deactivating their accounts.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged this during a Congressional hearing, his second in two days, on issues related on data privacy and security in view of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

"Yes," Zuckerberg replied when Congresswoman Dana Louise DeGette said since the revelations surrounding Cambridge Analytica, Facebook has not noticed a significant increase in users deactivating their accounts.

"Yes, that's correct," he said when DeGette said since the revelations surrounding Cambridge Analytica, Facebook has also not noticed a decrease in user interaction on Facebook.

Zuckerberg said as a result of the scandal, and the questions raised, Facebook is going to put, at the top of everyone's app when they sign in, a tool that walks people through the settings and gives people the choices and asks them to make decisions on how they want their settings set.

Everyone around the world deserves good privacy controls, he said.

"We've had a lot of these controls in place for years. The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requires us to do a few more things, and we're going to extend that to the world, he told lawmakers.

The GDPR is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union