Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter (pdf) to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, questioning him about crucial data Meta’s Facebook platform shared with developers in China in recent years.
Warner and Rubio alleged, based on past reporting and company documents, that Facebook has known that hundreds of thousands of developers in what it deemed “high-risk“ countries like China had access to ”significant amounts of sensitive user data.” The senators specifically noted a 2018 New York Times article stating Facebook had given privileged access to key application programming interfaces (APIs) to Huawei, OPPO, TCL, and other device-makers based in China.
