"I think the real problem is that you've got a company that has repeatedly had privacy scandals. That's what they prioritized because those were the metrics and are the metrics that the stock market cares about. I would say that they prioritize the growth of users, the growth of the data they can collect and their ability to monetize that through advertising. Lesley Stahl: So would you say that they didn't prioritize privacy? They didn't prioritize it, I think, is how I would phrase it. Sandy Parakilas: I didn't really see any traction in terms of making changes to protect people. Lesley Stahl: So were the executives' hair on fire? Did they say, "Oh my God, we have to fix this. Sandy Parakilas: Yeah, a number of folks, including several executives. Lesley Stahl: Did you bring this to the attention of the higher-ups, the executives? Lesley Stahl: Once the data left Facebook, did Facebook have any real way to find out what happened to it? Sandy Parakilas, once a manager in charge of protecting data at Facebook, walks with correspondent Lesley Stahl And one of the things that I was concerned about was that applications or developers of applications would receive all of this Facebook data, and that once they received it, there was no insight, Facebook had no control or view over what they were doing with the data. Sandy Parakilas: Well they didn't want to know in the sense that if they didn't know, then they could say they didn't know and they weren't liable, whereas if they knew they would actually have to do something about it. Lesley Stahl: They didn't want the public to know. You know, the impression that I got working there is that. Sandy Parakilas: I think they didn't want to know. He says he raised concerns years before Kogan built his app. What Happened After Data Left Facebookįacebook should've been aware of how this could be abused because they were repeatedly warned, including by Parakilas, who used to be a manager in charge of protecting data at the company. Lesley Stahl: The main infraction, the main charge is that you sold the data. Aleksandr Kogan, the man who mined data from Facebook for Cambridge Analytica He's at the center of the Facebook controversy because he developed an app that harvested data from tens of millions of unwitting Facebook users. The man who mined that data for Cambridge Analytica is a scientist named Aleksandr Kogan. "If I had any inkling that what we were going to do was going to destroy my relationship with Facebook, I would've never done it." election ads, advertisers to discriminate by race, hate groups to spread fake news and, because facebook shirked privacy concerns, a company called Cambridge Analytica was able to surreptitiously gain access to personal data mined from as many as 87 million Facebook users. We now know that during years of essentially policing itself, Facebook allowed Russian trolls to buy U.S. Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in a whale of trouble and not just because the company has lost tens of billions of dollars in market value in recent weeks.