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Sheryl Sandberg uses Facebook's woes as lesson for MIT grads

By COLLIN BINKLEY accessing that data.
Associated Press Only days earlier, the
BOSTON (AP) — Facebook company faced backlash
executive Sheryl Sandberg over revelations that it
didn't shy away from shared user data with
her company's ongoing certain device makers,
privacy scandal in a Friday and that an unrelated
commencement speech at software bug made some
the Massachusetts Institute private posts public for up
of Technology. Instead, she to 14 million users in May. All
turned it into a lesson about that followed Zuckerberg's
accountability. appearance before
Sandberg, the company's Congress in April, when he
chief operating officer, apologized for Facebook's
repeatedly warned role in a privacy scandal
graduates that even involving British data mining
technology created with company Cambridge
the best intentions can be Analytica.
twisted to do harm, a lesson But during her speech,
that she said hits close to Sandberg said she's still
home, "given some of the proud of the company,
issues Facebook has had." noting its power to help
"At Facebook, we didn't see organize movements like
all the risks coming, and we Sheryl Sandberg speaks during the MIT's 2018 Commencement exercises, Friday, June 8, 2018 in the Women's March and
didn't do enough to stop Cambridge, Mass. Black Lives Matter. Still, she
them," Sandberg said. "It's Associated Press warned graduates that
hard when you know you technology has a flipside,
let people down." "When you own your and it's not going to be fast, Street Journal reported that and isn't always used for
Echoing previous mistakes, you can work but we will see it through." Facebook had made deals the sake of good.
comments from Facebook hard to correct them, and Hours after her address, the to share user information "It also empowers those
CEO Mark Zuckerberg, even harder to prevent company was confronted with select companies, who would seek to do
Sandberg went on to the next ones," she said at with the latest in a series of even after the 2015 date harm," she said. "When
emphasize the importance the campus in Cambridge, privacy scandals that have when executives have said everyone has a voice,
of taking full responsibility Massachusetts. "That's my rocked the social-media the network prevented some raise their voices in
for mistakes. job now. It won't be easy, giant. This time, The Wall outside developers from hatred.q

Philippine police arrest nearly 500 in alleged online fraud

Associated Press statement.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) Police video shows officers
— Philippine police ar- with assault rifles, backed
rested nearly 500 people, by special forces units,
including eight Israeli na- barging into a vast office
tionals, who they say were and repeatedly yelling
involved in an online invest- "Hands up!" while ordering
ment fraud that victimized some of the suspects not
people overseas, including to touch their computers.
in Australia and South Af- Some of the Israelis could
rica, police said Thursday. be seen being led away in
In one of the Philippines' handcuffs.
biggest anti-cybercrime Police seized evidence
busts in years, police chief from the computers show-
Oscar Albayalde said 474 ing they were "engaged in
Filipino employees and a fraudulent online trading
the Israelis were taken into activity that involves mil-
custody following the raid lions of U.S. dollars victimiz-
on three buildings in Clark ing other foreign nationals
Freeport, a former U.S. Air all over the world," Albay-
Force base north of Manila, alde said. State prosecu-
where the alleged online tors were assessing criminal
fraud was committed. complaints against the sus-
The suspects lured victims In this photo provided by the Philippine National Police, SAF (Special Action Force) members pects.
escort Israeli nationals following a raid at Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga province, Thursday,
into investing in foreign June 7, 2018. Some foreign victims trav-
stocks in a purportedly Associated Press eled to the Philippines and
flourishing London-based reported to the police de-
company then took their perintendent Marni Mar- rested "while in the act of ing and doing online trans- tails of the alleged fraud
money through an online cos, who heads the nation- managing, operating and actions with foreign clients after obtaining information
app after obtaining their al police Anti-Cybercrime manning the three target from Europe, New Zealand, from some disgruntled syn-
bank account and credit Group. buildings" while the Filipinos Australia, South Africa and dicate members, Marcos
card details, said Chief Su- The Israeli men were ar- were caught communicat- Russia, Albayalde said in a told reporters.q