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Facebook CEO refuses to face-off with British parliamentarians
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IANS | 16 May, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has no plans as of now to face members of a
British parliamentary committee probing the misuse of the firm's data
its practice of collecting user information, the media reported.
In
a letter to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Rebecca
Stimson, Facebook's Head of Public Policy in the UK, said that
"Zuckerberg has no plans to meet with the committee or travel to the UK
at the present time", theregister.co.uk reported on Tuesday.
The
committee had expressed dissatisfaction with Facebook's response to
various points it raised including on Cambridge Analytica, dark ads,
Facebook Connect, the amount spent by Russia on UK ads on the platform,
data collection across the web and budgets for investigations.
Stimson's letter, however, did not dampen the desire of the committee to hear from Zuckerberg directly.
"Although
Facebook says Zuckerberg has no plans to travel to the UK, we would
also be open to taking his evidence by video link, if that would be the
only way to do this during the period of our inquiry," said Chair of the
Committee Damian Collins in response to Stimson's letter.
"For
too long these companies have gone unchallenged in their business
practices, and only under public pressure from this Committee and others
have they begun to fully cooperate with our requests," Collins added.
The
committee issued Facebook 39 questions it said the firm's Chief
technology Officer Mike Schroepfer had failed to answer in his evidence
to the parliamentarians.
The committee said Facebook's latest
responses to these questions do not fully answer each point with
sufficient detail or data evidence.
The committee said it plans to write again to address significant gaps in Facebook's answers in the coming days.
"It
is disappointing that a company with the resources of Facebook chooses
not to provide a sufficient level of detail and transparency on various
points including on Cambridge Analytica, dark ads, Facebook Connect, the
amount spent by Russia on UK ads on the platform, data collection
across the web, budgets for investigations, and that shows general
discrepancies between Schroepfer and Zuckerberg's respective
testimonies," Collins said.
"Given that these were follow up
questions to questions Schroepfer previously failed to answer, we
expected both detail and data, and in a number of cases got excuses,"
Collins added.
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