GOP senator to Facebook: ‘Do you have a profile on me?’

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) grilled a Facebook executive during a hearing on Tuesday about the company’s data collection practices, asking for assurances that it isn’t abusing its information about users.

“I think you do enormous good, but your power sometimes scares me,” Kennedy told representatives from Facebook, Google and Twitter on Tuesday.

{mosads}Turning his attention to Colin Stretch, Facebook’s general counsel, Kennedy asked whether the platform could hypothetically provide personal information about Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who was chairing the hearing, or about any individual user.

“Do you have a profile on me?” Kennedy asked.

Stretch responded that Facebook has safeguards in place to prevent that level of invasiveness.

“The answer is absolutely not,” Stretch said.

“We have designed our system to prevent exactly that — to protect the privacy of our users,” he added.