“Would you support a rule that would require you to notify users of a breach within 72 hours?”

“That makes sense to me,” Zuckerberg says.

“Would you be comfortable sharing the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?” another senator asked. “Would you be okay with giving us the names of the people you texted last night?” Zuckerberg, of course, said he would not be okay with doing that in a public forum. “I think that may be what this is all about,” the senator responded.

“My reservation,” said one astute senator (thank god there’s at least one at this hearing) “is that I don’t see how you can change your business model. So unless there are strict regulations by an outside committee down the road, I can’t have faith in these vague commitments.”

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Zuckerberg, for his part, is at least doing the smart thing and remaining apologetic, even if it’s coming off a bit like he’s a misunderstood superhero instead of the incompetent cop here. 

“The biggest mistake we made is thinking we were just building tools, instead of ensuring those tools are used for good.”

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