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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: We Have a Basic Responsibility to Protect Peoples' Data.' Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Data Crisis [Watch (HLS stream): We Have a Basic Responsibility to Protect Peoples' Data.' Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Data Crisis](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/KSN4pOkY.m3u8) (2:05)  _Published 2018-03-22. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized in an interview Thursday, saying that the exposure of users’ data to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica “was a major breach of trust,” and that he was “really sorry that this happened.”_ --- Jul 27, 2023 11:41 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Mark Zuckerberg Admits His Data Was Part of the Cambridge Leak](/video/Nx0EL9sw/) ### Mark Zuckerberg Admits His Data Was Part of the Cambridge Leak [Mark Zuckerberg Tells Congress He's Sorry](/video/qtOKjiHB/) ### Mark Zuckerberg Tells Congress He's Sorry [Mark Zuckerberg Just Revealed Steps Facebook Is Taking to Address the Cambridge Analytica Crisis](/video/DfdjfJQ4/) ### Mark Zuckerberg Just Revealed Steps Facebook Is Taking to Address the Cambridge Analytica Crisis --- ## Transcript This was a major breach of trust and I'm really sorry that this happened. We have a basic responsibility to protect people's data, and if we can't do that then we don't deserve to have the opportunity to serve people. Going forward, when we identify apps that are similarly doing sketchy things We're gonna make sure that we tell people then too. Right, that's definitely something that, looking back on this, I regret that we didn't do it at the time and I think we got that wrong. And we're committed to getting that right going forward. I actually I'm not sure we shouldn't be regulated. I think in general, technology is an increasing. Increasingly important trend in the world and I actually think the question is more what is the right regulation rather than yes or no should it be regulated. I mean there's a lot of hard work that we need to do to make it harder for nation states like Russia to do election interference, to make it so that trolls and other folks can't spread fake news. But we can get in front of this and we have a responsibility to do this, not only for the 2018 midterms in the US which are going to be a huge deal this year. And that's just a huge focus of us. But there's a big election in India this year. There's a big election in Brazil. There are big elections around the world and that you can bet we are really committed to doing everything that we need to to make sure that the integrity of those elections on Facebook is secure. Facebook testifies in Congress regularly on a number of topics, some high profile and some not, and our objective Is always to provide Congress, this extremely important job, to have the most information that they can. Well see a small slice of activity on Facebook but Congress gets to have access to the information across Facebook and all other companies and the intelligence community and everything. So what we try to do. 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