The Hill reports U.S. Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have reached out to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with questions regarding the social network's privacy policies and standards for children. Markey and Blumenthal wrote a letter to Zuckerberg seeking details on a vulnerability discovered in Facebook’s Messenger Kids app that allowed users to communicate with people without parental consent. "Children’s privacy and safety online should be Messenger Kids’ top priority," Markey and Blumenthal wrote. "Your company has a responsibility to meet its promise to parents that children are not exposed to unapproved contacts, a promise that it appears that Facebook has not fulfilled."
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