Executives responded to the current
uproar over the weekend by arguing that what happened didn't constitute a
data breach — prompting users,
privacy advocates and others to say it was missing the point.
• the 2006 user
uproar over the introduction of the News Feed; • the 2007 outrage
over Facebook allowing user profiles to be discoverable by search engines; • the 2008 complaints about Facebook's practice of indefinitely keeping copies of user
data from deleted accounts; • the 2008 backlash when the «Beacon» program was introduced; • the 2009 user indignation about expansions to Facebook's user
data retention policies; • the 2010 concern
over the way Facebook was handling
privacy and was divulging identifying information to advertisers; • the 2010 worry that Facebook was «breaking things»; • the 2015 critique that Facebook was acting in an anti-competitive manner in introducing a «Free Basics» program in India; • and more recently, in responses
over Facebook's influence on the 2016 U.S. elections and other global elections.
Zuckerberg's comments are likely to rile critics who have called on Facebook to make more drastic revisions to its
privacy and
data handling practices following the
uproar over voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica.