
And the choice isn’t just between offering a paid service or a “free” service that forces users to take on what amounts to a part-time job to avoid having their entire online life profiled.įacebook’s advertising practices have been the subject of controversies for the world’s largest social network for years. “Senator, we run ads,” Zuckerberg said, as if this were the most obvious fact in the world.īut the way in which Facebook sells ads is exactly the sort of privacy issue that public officials regulators should be confronting, argues Sean Sullivan, F-Secure’s Security Advisor.

“So, how do you sustain a business model in which users don’t pay for your service?” Senator Orrin Hatch asked.

Congress, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO, had to answer what he seemed to think was a simple question.
