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: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Monday June 25 2018, @09:15AM (2 children)
Facebook penetration by region - 2017 [internetworldstats.com]
Europe - 41.7% penetration - based on this percentage, I'd say a democratic representative answer from the population will be "Not pleasant, but OK, good riddance".
In contrast with North America - penetration 72.4%.
What... is that unexpected for your thought?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Monday June 25 2018, @12:54PM
Whether they'd withdraw from the EU over that legislation - something less than 42% of the population will actually care about, given that there *are* other options and by doing so many would see it being down to Facebook, rather than the EU - is another matter entirely. 42% of 508m people is still a lot of metadata that they can sell access to...
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @04:24PM
If there was more penetration happening there would be less facebooking happening.