I received this petition request in my mailbox (on my secret server) from SumOfUs.org lamenting the enormous data breach earlier this year from Facebook's vaults (and indeed they are vaults, so transformed by Zuck. with all that salable information). This is not the biggest breach, consider the Equifax hack; but it's certainly near the top of the list. Bank of America was hacked. What large corp. hasn't been hacked.

In a few weeks, Mark Zuckerberg will have to sit before the U.S. Congress and justify to the world how 50 million Facebook users' data got in the hands of a third party app that has helped undermine democratic processes across the world--from the United States to the UK.
Once news of the massive Facebook data breach broke, it took Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg five whole days to issue an apology after stock prices started taking a hit. Zuckerberg has continuously refused to take responsibility for some of the company's worst offenses. If his actions didn't make it clear enough already, profits from Facebook's surveillance-based business model are Zuckerberg's main priority far above the protection of user data and privacy.

It's time for new leadership at Facebook to ensure that the millions of people who want to use this service to stay connected with friends and family can do so with the knowledge that their personal information is not being shared and exploited to line Facebook's pockets.
Call on Mark Zuckerberg to step down as CEO of Facebook now.

Late last month, Facebook announced that it suspended the third party app called Strategic Communications Laboratories and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytics. Both ran data operations for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign, and have been widely credited for helping Trump more effectively target voters on Facebook. Which is a pretty big deal since 45% of Facebook users in the U.S. consume news on the site.
This is not the first time Facebook has passed along user data to unsavory hands. Two years ago the company shut down Korryn Gaines' livestream of her fatal police encounter at the request of Baltimore police. Over the past few years, Facebook has been in the spotlight for state-sponsored censorship, the proliferation of fake news, contradictory hate speech policies and unethical data collection practices.

There are no checks in place at Facebook to hold Zuckerberg accountable for putting users at risk. We have an opportunity to change that. In the past few weeks, Facebook has lost an estimate of almost $100 billion in market value. Zuckerberg is feeling the heat, finally issuing a public apology but refusing to testify for UK lawmakers. If the pressure continues, Facebook will be forced to hold him to account and change its governance structure.

Enough is enough: Please sign now to tell Zuckerberg to step down as CEO of Facebook.
Not only is Mark Zuckerberg the CEO of Facebook but he is also the chair of the board of directors, meaning that he is accountable to himself only. The governance structure of Facebook gives very little power to shareholders and concentrates the power in one place: Mark Zuckerberg himself.
Last year we filed a shareholder resolution to create a boss for Zuckerberg-- an independent Chair of the Board of Directors. Because we knew this lack of accountability was a recipe for disaster and more scandals to come. But Zuckerberg controls 60% of the shareholder voting power while owning only a minority of the shares. So even though our proposal earned the support of almost half of the shareholders not controlled by Zuckerberg, we knew it would be a tough fight.
SumOfUs isn't afraid to take on Facebook. Last year, 140,000 members like you called out Facebook on its censorship practices after several reports surfaced of activists being silenced around the world. We know that when we work together, we have the power to change Facebook to make it a secure and better online space for all.

Making Zuckerberg THE scapegoat for this fiasco misses the mark. Z is just a neoliberal enabler. Despite what many FB user-addicts may think, FB is not necessary to maintain health or comfort. It is, to put it crassly, a time-wasting toy for the multitudes but a diamond mine for the owners. Getting rid of Z, although a good move, is just playing whack-a-mole with other corporatists ready, willing, and able to step in.

Twitter, Snapchat, etc. are no different. The are ALL feverishly data-mining. And their results evidently pay off--at least until somebody catches them in the act. Z's mea culpa only came 5 days after the breach was revealed. That shows his compassion for FB'ers. He's been selling off stocks for months in relatively small lots to avoid a disastrous fall. Insider trading at it's best (or worst). This leads me to think that the Cambridge Analytica (CA) breach was known months ago, before revealed publicly.

CA is not a think tank. It is a leak tank. This FB episode is just the latest example and probably the biggest.

Terms of Service: the booby trap resident in almost ALL applications for mobile devices and computers is that you, the end-user, specifically grant the app. developer the right to track you, market, to other firms and, likely, political parties.

Is there a cure. Yes. More than one. One measure enacted in some EU countries is the "right to be forgotten" in which data tracking is forbidden. We need this sort of legislation more than we need Z to be ridden out of town.

Breaking up these oligarchic messaging system will surely come across problems but there must be better technological ways to weaken propaganda, data-mining enterprises.