Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg On Data Privacy Fail: 'We Were Way Too Idealistic'
The chief operating officer tells NPR that she is sorry for not doing more to protect users and that the company is looking into whether user information has been compromised by other firms.
After weeks of remaining conspicuously out of sight, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told NPR's Steve Inskeep that she doesn't know if companies other than Cambridge Analytica exploited users' private data without their consent.
"We don't know," she said, leaning into a black leather swivel chair at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Thursday.
Sandberg said Facebook has launched an investigation and audit to determine whether user information has been compromised by other firms.
"As we find those, we're going to notify people," she
