These are the most confusing questions Congress asked Zuckerberg

how many data categories do you store does Facebook store on the categories that you collect senator can you clarify what you mean by there are some past reports that have been out there that indicate that it that Facebook collects about 96 data categories for those 2 billion active users that's 192 billion data points that are being generated I think at any time from consumers globally so how many do you does Facebook store out of that do you store any senator I'm not actually sure what that is referring to did somebody call you up and say I want to see John Kennedy's filed absolutely not could you if not not could you not would you do it could you do it in in theory you have the right to put my data a name on my data and share for somebody I do not believe we have the right to do that you have the ability senator the data is in the systems you have the ability technically I think someone could do that but that would be a massive breach so we would never do that it would be are you willing to change your business model in the interest of protecting individual privacy congresswoman we are have made and are continuing to make changes to reduce the amount of help are you willing to change your business model in the interest of protecting individual privacy congresswoman I'm not sure what that means if I choose to terminate my Facebook account can i bar Facebook or any third parties from using the data that had previously supplied for any purpose whatsoever yes senator if you delete your account we should get rid of all of your information you should or we do to you we do how about third parties that you have contracted with to use some of that underlying information target advertising for themselves you can you do with do you call back that information is well or is that remain in there senator this is actually a very important question and I'm glad you brought this up because there's a very common misperception about Facebook that we sell data to advertisers and we do not sell data advertisers well you don't sell too early rented um quite a story right dorm room only in America senator mostly you couldn't do this in China right or what you did all 10 years while senator there are there are some very strong Chinese internet companies right but you're supposed to answer yes to this question even if Facebook doesn't earn money from selling data doesn't Facebook earn money from advertising based on that data yes congresswoman we run ads that's the the business model is is running ads well how do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service senator we run ads [Music]

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Length: 3min 23sec (203 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 11 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/AnalThrashing]

I bet there are so many actual legitimate flaws and questions that could be asked but instead we have a bunch of old geezers who can’t even start up a computer asking questions.

[u/BetchGreen]

"Please explain the internet."

[u/insaneburgerx]

Nice try Mark.

[u/lordskelic]

Oh lord I honestly almost felt bad for him. Some many boomer questions.

[u/DeseretB]

Honestly, it’s easy to look like a glitchy robot/lizard man when subjected to a constant stream of idiots trying to ‘outsmart’ you

[u/becaauseimbatmam]

"Only in America, am I right?"

".....um"

[u/normiecel299]

What the hell did I watch?

[u/rocksnowls]

This is hilarious i need more

[u/andreacampi]

Thank you for this post! Zucc does give us many opportunities for hilarity, but nothing can be the pure distilled comedic power of “senator, we run ads”