Protecting Sensitive Data: The Experience of Russia and the US

... information was collected was in violation of the law, and the company contracted to perform the analysis of the collected material was Cambridge Analytica . The level of public outrage prompted the Senate Committee on Trade, Science and Transport to invite Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a series of special hearings . The main complaint of the U.S. lawmakers was that the social network had failed to guarantee the inviolability of confidential information on its and allowed personal data of its users to fall into the hands of unscrupulous political structures. Zuckerberg accepted full responsibility and convinced the Senate that he would take the necessary measures to protect the confidential information of Facebook users....