Facebook Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook is finding a way to address assertions of abuse of information amid the US presidential crusades. As per reports, a firm working for Donald Trump's presidential crusade collected and abused information of 50 million facebook clients.

Popularity based Senator Amy Klobuchar and Republican John Kennedy required the organization's head Mark Zuckerberg to show up before Congress, alongside Google and Twitter's CEOs.

Be that as it may, Zuckerberg emphasized the online networking stages take steps to securing the client's information.

Here is the full content of Zuckerberg's response:

I need to share a report on the Cambridge Analytica circumstance — including the means we've effectively found a way to address this imperative issue.

We have a duty to ensure your information, and on the off chance that we can't then we don't should serve you. I've been attempting to see precisely what happened and how to ensure this doesn't occur once more. Fortunately the most vital activities to keep this from happening again today we have officially taken years prior. Be that as it may, we additionally committed errors, there's something else entirely to do, and we have to advance up and do it.

Here's a timetable of the occasions:

In 2007, we propelled the Facebook Platform with the vision that more applications ought to be social. Your logbook ought to have the capacity to demonstrate your companions' birthday celebrations, your maps should indicate where your companions live, and your address book should demonstrate their photos. To do this, we empowered individuals to sign into applications and offer who their companions were and some data about them.

In 2013, a Cambridge University specialist named Aleksandr Kogan made an identity test application. It was introduced by around 300,000 individuals who shared their information and also some of their companions' information. Given the way our stage worked at the time this implied Kogan could get to a huge number of their companions' information.

In 2014, to avoid damaging applications, we reported that we were changing the whole stage as far as possible the information applications could get to. Above all, applications like Kogan's could never again request information about a man's companions unless their companions had additionally approved the application. We additionally expected engineers to get endorsement from us before they could ask for any delicate information from individuals. These activities would keep any application like Kogan's from having the capacity to get to so much information today.

In 2015, we gained from writers at The Guardian that Kogan had shared information from his application with Cambridge Analytica. It is against our arrangements for engineers to share information without individuals' assent, so we promptly prohibited Kogan's application from our stage, and requested that Kogan and Cambridge Analytica formally guarantee that they had erased all despicably procured information. They gave these affirmations.

A week ago, we gained from The Guardian, The New York Times and Channel 4 that Cambridge Analytica might not have erased the information as they had ensured. We quickly prohibited them from utilizing any of our administrations. Cambridge Analytica claims they have just erased the information and has consented to a measurable review by a firm we enlisted to affirm this. We're likewise working with controllers as they examine what happened.

This was a break of trust between Kogan, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. Be that as it may, it was likewise a break of trust amongst Facebook and the general population who share their information with us and anticipate that us will secure it. We have to settle that.

For this situation, we as of now made the most imperative strides a couple of years back in 2014 to keep awful on-screen characters from getting to individuals' data along these lines. However, there's more we have to do and I'll layout those means here:

To start with, we will explore all applications that approached a lot of data before we changed our stage to drastically lessen information access in 2014, and we will lead a full review of any application with suspicious action. We will prohibit any engineer from our stage that does not consent to an intensive review. Furthermore, in the event that we discover engineers that abused by and by identifiable data, we will boycott them and tell everybody influenced by those applications. That incorporates individuals whose information Kogan abused here also.

Second, we will limit designers' information get to significantly further to counteract different sorts of mishandle. For instance, we will expel designers' entrance to your information on the off chance that you haven't utilized their application in 3 months. We will decrease the information you give an application when you sign in — to just your name, profile photograph, and email address. We'll expect designers to get endorsement as well as sign an agreement keeping in mind the end goal to approach anybody for access to their posts or other private information. What's more, we'll have more changes to partake in the following couple of days.

Third, we need to ensure you comprehend which applications you've permitted to get to your information. In the following month, we will demonstrate everybody a device at the highest point of your News Feed with the applications you've utilized and a simple method to renounce those applications' authorizations to your information. We as of now have an apparatus to do this in your protection settings, and now we will put this instrument at the highest point of your News Feed to ensure everybody sees it.

Past the means we had officially taken in 2014, I trust these are the following stages we should take to keep on securing our stage.

I began Facebook, and by the day's end I'm in charge of what occurs on our stage. I'm not kidding about doing what it takes to ensure our group. While this particular issue including Cambridge Analytica should never again occur with new applications today, that doesn't change what occurred previously. We will gain from this experience to secure our stage further and make our group more secure for everybody going ahead.

I need to thank every one of you who keep on believing in our main goal and work to manufacture this group together. I know it takes more time to settle every one of these issues than we'd like, however I guarantee you we'll work through this and manufacture a superior administration over the long haul.