Facebook faces lawmakers again and spends $ 20 million on the security of its founder

Two Democrats in the US Senate support Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s personal responsibility for the privacy of customer data usage.
Representatives Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Ron Wyden of Oregon State criticized Zuckerberg and senior Facebook executives for violations of processing and exploiting customer data.

The two deputies called for the issue of Facebook through the Federal Trade Commission following the appearance of a report by The Washington Post indicating the study of this matter, in order to prevent deception of consumers and to enhance the positivity of the business sector.

Massachusetts Democratic presidential and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has unveiled legislation to arrest social media executives who fail to remove abhorrent violent material from platforms in a timely manner. And that after similar legislation was passed in Australia and the UK studied this matter According to the British Guardian newspaper.

The Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation with Facebook after the Cambridge Analytica Political Research Company scandal, which harmed the data of 87 million users about the company's 2011 agreement with the agency.

This comes at a time when the Federal Trade Commission confirmed that it had opened an investigation with Facebook officials in March 2018 and had not commented on the current Washington Post report, despite a statement attributed to the spokesperson for Facebook, that he hoped for an appropriate and fair solution.

And data from the famous site has shown that the personal security costs of his founder increased by nearly four times from 2016, so the costs of personal security for Mr. Mark Zuckerberg are constantly doubling, reaching $ 20 million in the year 2018 after having registered 7.6 million dollars and 5.1 million dollars in 2017 and 2016, respectively.

It is noteworthy that this money is used to cover the private expenses of Zuckerberg in personal security, housing and travel, while the company attributed these increases to the increase in the total costs of security.