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posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 25 2018, @07:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the they're-not-coming dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @09:34AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @09:34AM (#698044)

    If Facebook cuts off Europe, that will just open the door wide open for some other social networking platform that is willing to comply with European law to step into where they used to be, and they'll probably take out a very large chunk of Facebook's non-European userbase along with them. Ironically, the network effects for actual networked services like those provided by Facebook or Google are actually weaker than the network effects for mass market software like Microsoft's. If Google stops making useful searches, or if someone else is seen to be able to do that job better, or if they can't be used since they are blocked by local regulations, it's just a click of the mouse to start using some other search engine. If a large number of your friends start using another social network more than they use Facebook, again, it's just a click of the mouse to make an account there and join in. That is exactly what's going to happen if Facebook is actually dumb enough to try to cut out Europe. A much better strategy will be for them to make a show of compliance and then try to work behind the scenes to buy laws in their favour instead.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @02:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @02:55PM (#698144)

    European offerings like vkontakty or meinvz?