Zuckerberg says sorry for Facebook "mistakes" with user data, vows more curbs

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today apologised for a "major breach of trust" with its users and vowed to take steps to protect their data, as the social media giant faced heat by a massive scandal over data siphoned by a data mining firm with ties to the 2016 Trump campaign.

Seeking to quell the global uproar over harvesting of data of 50 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, a British firm linked to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Zuckerberg admitted making "mistakes."
"That's definitely something that, looking back on this, I regret that we didn't do at the time," he said. "I think we got that wrong."
He said the company will "investigate every app that has access to a large amount of information from before we locked down our platform, and if we detect any suspicious activity, we're going to do a full forensic audit."
"This was a breach of trust between Kogan, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook," Zuckerberg wrote in the post. "But it was also a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it."