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Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly lied to the American people about privacy. I think he ought to be held personally accountable, which is everything from financial fines to — and let me underline this — the possibility of a prison term.”
Those are the words of Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who said Facebook Inc.’s chief executive should face serious consequences for misuse of consumers’ personal data.

“He hurt a lot of people,” Wyden told Portland’s Willamette Weekly newspaper in an interview published last week.

Wyden introduced a bill in 2018 that would give the Federal Trade Commission expanded powers to punish companies that violate consumers’ data privacy, including steep fines and potential prison time for executives.

“There is a precedent for this,” Wyden told Willamette Weekely. “In financial services, if the CEO and the executives lie about the financials, they can be held personally accountable.”