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:

It is actually core to our business model not to sell people's data because people trust us with their data and we know we have to rebuild that trust. If we were to sell people's data, that trust would be lost and we would ultimately not have a business.