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European Union lawmakers are unhappy that Facebook is refusing to comply with their request to send two senior officials to testify at a hearing into the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
The EU parliament's Civil Liberties Committee wants to question Facebook's chief privacy officer and the vice presidents for advertisements and global public policy.
The committee said Friday that global public policy vice president Joel Kaplan will attend Monday's hearing, but he will only be accompanied two members of Facebook's public policy team.
Committee Chairman Claude Moraes said "we had expected to hear from other speakers."
Moraes said "it will be up to members to see if Facebook's answers will be sufficient, convincing and trustworthy."
Initially, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declined to appear before the assembly but finally attended last month.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday June 25 2018, @08:30AM (4 children)
Why do I feel like lawmakers being "miffed over a Facebook snub" sounds so close to anyone being miffed by, well, a Facebook snub? The parallel high-school frenemy vibes I get from both of these sound a lot closer in their dynamics than they should. Maybe politics at the high school/national levels aren't really that different at all?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 25 2018, @12:53PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Monday June 25 2018, @01:03PM
You are perceiving that because it is real. That is the level at which politics really plays. Everything else is window dressing in front of the cameras.
It quickly becomes apparent when you engage with the machinery of democracy on any level. Most adults become exasperated with the juvenile reality and walk away. Thus the nonsense persists. The nonsense is self-reinforcing, also, in that adults who are otherwise mature and measured in their thought and manner normalize to the idiocy of the political crowd.
I place my hope in geeks, that are too socially inept to give a rat's ass about political games and too intent on making the world materially better no matter how many or what sort of idiots inhabit its governments.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday June 25 2018, @05:47PM (1 child)
This seems to be a bad move by Facebook, because these are some of the people who control the EU laws, and currently Facebook wants some of the laws to favor them.
Presumably there are reasons which Facebook's management feels are sufficient. Damfino what they could be.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 25 2018, @08:39PM
Here's my take. Will they be screwed, if they show up? Yes, it's a witch hunt looking for more witches to burn. Do they have to show up? No.