“Some profess themselves shocked — shocked! — that companies like Facebook and Google share user data with advertisers,” Hatch said while questioning Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg. “Did any of these individuals ever stop to ask themselves why Facebook and Google don’t charge for access? Nothing in life is free. Everything involves trade-offs.”
Zuckerberg, appearing before Congress for the first time, fielded hours of questions about how the tech giant protects users’ personal information after revelations that Cambridge Analytica acquired Facebook’s user data under the guise of academic research and then used it for political purposes to help elect President Donald Trump.