Watch: US senator asks for personal details, Facebook's Zuckerberg won't give them
Mark Zuckerberg
'I think maybe what this is all about is your right to privacy, the limits of your privacy and how much do you give away in modern America in the name of 'connecting people around the world',' the senator said
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's five-hour-long testimony before US lawmakers had him grilled to his core, but one question that had the Facebook chief foxed out of his wits was when Senator Richard J. Durbin asked him to share the details of his hotel stay from the previous night.
"Mr Zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?" Durbin asked.
"Uh, no, I would probably not," Zuckerberg replied.
Aptly put, Senator Durbin had Zuckerberg have a taste of his own medicine, detailing the significance and the sensitivity involved in protecting private details of a person/user.
"I think maybe what this is all about is your right to privacy, the limits of your privacy and how much do you give away in modern America in the name of 'connecting people around the world'," the Senator noted.
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Another question posed to Zuckerberg asked him if his company or he was too powerful.
Zuckerberg replied saying that most people refer to the scale of his company which has close to 2 billion users across the globe, mostly outside America, "Americans should be proud of this," he noted.
Zuckerberg further added that he is not a person who is against any type of regulation on the internet. "Internet is becoming an extremely integral part of people's lives. I think we need to have a full conversation about what is the right regulation," Zuckerberg noted.
mark Zuckerberg's testimony came after it was revealed in March that British firm Cambridge Analytica tied to US President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign improperly collected profile data of up to 87 million Facebook users.
The scandal shook confidence in Facebook, leading some people to go as far as abandoning the social media site altogether a revolt called the hashtag #DeleteFacebook.
Zuckerberg, who is also the CEO of Facebook, said data privacy and foreign interference in elections were topics that they have discussed at the Facebook board meeting.
"These are some of the biggest issues that the company has faced, and we feel a huge responsibility to get these right," Zuckerberg told lawmakers during the Congressional hearing, adding that "this is one of my top priorities in 2018".