Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Tuesday that he hopes the panel's hearing on Facebook doesn't get "down in the weeds about the [2016] election."
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with top legislators on Monday for a short hearing ahead of his joint hearing with members of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Tuesday to discuss the revelation that Cambridge Analytica obtained the personal data of about 87 million Facebook users.
Grassley told Fox News ahead of the joint hearing that "this brings up what can we do either through legislation, regulation or better yet if the company's will do it themselves to make sure people know about their restrictions that they have on privacy and are they going - once they have good rules, are they going to abide by those rules because quite frankly they presume they had the rules but they didn't enforce them."
He added that Facebook "bragged about similar access to this information for the 2012 re-election of [former President Barack] Obama and then don't forget Cambridge Analytica tapped into Facebook and got this information probably a year before there was even a [President Donald] Trump candidacy.
"I hope we don't get down in the weeds about the election because this is more about privacy and all the data that this company collects about people and the protection of that data and the protection of privacy. That ought to be our main focus."
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