According to sources BBC has been told that about 1.1 million of them are UK based and the overall figure had been previously quoted as being 50 million by the whistle blower Christopher Wylie. Meanwhile the Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg said” clearly we should have done more, and we will go forward".
Meanwhile during a press conference he said that he had previously assumed that if Facebook gave people tools, it was largely their responsibility to decide how to use them, but he added that it was "wrong in retrospect" to have had such a limited view. He said "Today, given what we know he thinks we understand that we need to take a broader view of our responsibility”.
Moreover Zuckerberg also announced an internal audit
had uncovered a fresh problem. Malicious actors had been abusing a feature that
let users search for one another by typing in email addresses or phone numbers
into Facebook's search box. Presently Facebook has blocked now blocked the
facility. He added "It is reasonable to expect that if you had that
default setting turned on, that in the last several years someone has probably
accessed your public information in this way”.
