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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: 2) by HiThere on Monday June 25 2018, @05:47PM (1 child)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @05:47PM (#698223) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 25 2018, @08:39PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @08:39PM (#698363) Journal

    Presumably there are reasons which Facebook's management feels are sufficient. Damfino what they could be.

    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.