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:

Yes but get ready as there are a couple of questions coming your way.

The next question was on how many more Cambridge Analyticas are there. As I mentioned at the outset, we are undertaking a rigorous review of all the apps that exist on the site that had access to that same amount of data before the 2014 platform change. I do not know how many will prove to have suspicious activity, but if we see any suspicious activity or if, under the new bug bounty programme for developers, it is reported to us, we will audit them, we will let the regulator know and we will let the people affected know. That is the commitment we have made.