Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. Joel Kaplan:

I think the issue was the characterisation of the data breach as a legal issue and our lawyers disagreed with that. The important thing is, as Mr. Zuckerberg testified and has stated any number of times, this was a breach of trust under any circumstances, and we believe our responsibility is to prevent that type of breach from happening.