INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In light of the massive data scandal involving Cambridge Analytica around the 2016 United States presidential election, a lot of people
wondered how something like that could&ve happened
Well, Facebook didn''t see it coming, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said at the Code conference this evening.
If you go back to 2016 and
you think about what people were worried about in terms of nations, states or election security, it was largely spam and phishing hacking,&
&That what people were worried about.
She referenced the Sony email hack and how Facebook didn''t have a lot of the problems other companies
Unfortunately, while Facebook was focused on not screwing up in that area, &we didn''t see coming a different kind of more insidious
threat,& Sandberg said.
Sandberg added, &We realized we didn''t see the new threat coming
We were focused on the old threat and now we understand that this is the kind of threat we have.
Moving forward, Sandberg said, Facebook now
understands the threat and that it better able to meet those threats leading in to future elections.On stage, Sandberg also said Facebook
was not only late to discovering Cambridge Analytica unauthorized access to its data, but that Facebook still doesn''t know exactly what
data Cambridge Analytica accessed
Facebook was in the midst of conducting its own audit when the U.K
government decided to conduct one of their own, therefore putting Facebook on hold.
They didn''t have any data that we could&ve identified
&To this day, we still don''t know what data Cambridge Analytica had.
