U.S. senators query Meta on Chinese language, different builders’ entry to delicate knowledge
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, chair and vice chair of the U.S. Senate Choose Committee on Intelligence, wrote to Fb mum or dad Meta Platforms on Monday about paperwork that present it knew builders in China and Russia had entry to person knowledge that could possibly be used for espionage.
“It seems from these paperwork that Fb has identified, since at the least September 2018, that tons of of hundreds of builders in international locations Fb characterised as ‘high-risk,’ together with the Individuals’s Republic of China, had entry to vital quantities of delicate person knowledge,” Warner, a Democrat, and Republican Rubio wrote within the letter to firm founder Mark Zuckerberg.
The letter mentioned an inside Meta doc confirmed that just about 90,000 builders in China had been given entry to details about customers, together with profile knowledge, images and personal messages regardless that Fb had by no means been in a position to function in China.
Greater than 42,000 builders in Russia and hundreds in Iran and North Korea additionally had entry to the data, they wrote.
The unsealed paperwork got here to mild as a part of litigation within the Northern District of California that was filed in 2018.
“We now have grave considerations in regards to the extent to which this entry may have enabled overseas intelligence service exercise, starting from overseas malign affect to focusing on and counter-intelligence,” the 2 senators wrote.
Fb didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Modifying by Invoice Berkrot)
