Facebook CEO to meet with European Parliament to talk privacy

Zuckerberg to meet party leaders, members of the civil liberties committee


Reuters May 16, 2018
The world's largest social network has come under scrutiny over the way it handles personal data after revelations that British consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the Facebook data of 87 million users. PHOTO: REUTERS

BRUSSELS,: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will appear before members of the European Parliament to answer questions about the improper use of data of 87 million Facebook users by a political consultancy, the speaker of the legislature said on Wednesday.

"The founder and CEO of Facebook has accepted our invitation
and will be in Brussels as soon as possible, hopefully already
next week," Antonio Tajani, President of the European
Parliament, said in a statement.

Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users

The American would notably meet party leaders and members of the civil liberties committee.

The world's largest social network has come under scrutiny over the way it handles personal data after revelations that British consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the Facebook data of 87 million users.

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