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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @12:45AM
That's all well and good until the big corps leave because Irish taxes end up costing too much... Do you think they will have the balls to go after MS or Google? Will European companies who could previously advertise worldwide on big social platforms be happy when their costs are increased and visibility reduced because entrenched monopolies don't feel like playing with them? Will twitter be forced to segregate their platform? How will Europeans doing business with developing countries maintain their contacts when Skype and Whatsapp block their service? Do you think Amazon is really gonna stop? How about those ridesharing companies? I wish Europe would step up and start competing, but your best and brightest are working for US companies and nanny-welfare states don't foster creativity and hustle.