“I think you have a product where it has been designed without a lock or without an alarm.”
Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) appeared on CNN’s “New Day” on Tuesday to show their bipartisan support for protecting privacy, and together they railed against the information at the hands of Facebook after a massive data breach at the company was reported.
The senators are calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before Congress to explain how to massive social media company will fix the breach and address other privacy concerns in the future. The outrage comes after reports revealed that data consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly gathered Facebook user data to build voter profiles during the 2016 presidential election.
Needless to say, Klobuchar and Kennedy weren’t too happy about the massive breach of private information.
“I think you have a product where it has been designed without a lock or without an alarm,” Klobuchar said. “And, big surprise, some of the bad guys have gotten in.”
Klobuchar slammed Facebook for negligent security measures that exposed 50 million users to the breach and argued that Zuckerberg needs to testify about what he will do to ensure that users are protected.
“[Zuckerberg] needs to explain that as well as the fact that we don’t get support for our Honest Ads Act — which would put the social media sites on the same rules of the game as you see for print media and radio, TV ads,” she said.
Kennedy chimed in, arguing that Facebook has gotten too big for its own good, and that checks need to be placed to limit the amount of information it has access to.
“Facebook is a great company,” he said. ”But it’s no longer a company. It’s a country. That’s how powerful it is. And its behavior lately has kind of been getting into the foothills of creepy.”
According to the Wall Street Journal, following the public outcry, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix was suspended while the company investigates whether data gathered from Facebook was properly used and secured.
Watch the clip above, via CNN.
