Yesterday, an official letter signed by a group of Democratic senators was sent to Mark Zuckerberg. In it, they demand that his project to develop the Novi digital wallet for the needs of the social platform be frozen.
The letter states that frequent scandals over theft of confidential user data indicate that Facebook cannot even guarantee the secure storage of account information. Therefore, to say that the platform can offer users reliable transaction processing and token storage is short-sighted and presumptuous.
The letter was written immediately after the Diem project began testing in Guatemala. This is a renamed Libra token, a stablecoin that Zuckerberg has been trying to bring to market since 2019. The project has repeatedly attracted criticism from US authorities. Therefore, attempts to create a wallet for Diem are naturally suppressed by regulators.
The persuasion of the head of Facebook Financial, David Marcus, to give the platform a chance to prove that it can cope with storing valuables, has so far only caused bewilderment among legislators - after all, the company’s lawyers are still engaged in legal disputes over previously issued fines for selling users’ personal data to third parties.
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