Watch: Zuckerberg talks about how important Facebook privacy is in 2009

Carla Sinclair 10:58 am Thu Mar 22, 2018

Yowza. Here's a 2009 BBC interview with Mark Zuckerberg, with an excerpt below.

Reporter: So who is going to own the Facebook content, the person who puts it there, or you?

Zuckerberg: The person who puts the content on Facebook always owns the information, and this is why Facebook is such a special service.

Reporter: And you won't sell it?

Zuckerberg: No, of course not.

Reporter: Just to be clear, you're not going to sell, or share, any of the information on Facebook?

Zuckerberg: We're not going to share people's information except for with the people that they've asked for it to be shared.

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