Posted on 05/16/2018 4:35:13 PM PDT by BBell
LONDON — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, plans to meet with members of the European Parliament as early as next week, the latest stop in a wide-ranging apology tour over the social network’s use of people’s personal data.
Mr. Zuckerberg’s decision to travel to Brussels comes as Facebook faces a barrage of public criticism over how the data of tens of millions of its users was harvested without their consent, as well as concerns over the company’s role in elections around the world and questions over whether it has moved quickly enough to remove inflammatory content.
His visit will involve a closed-door session with leaders of the European Parliament’s various blocs and the head of the body’s civil liberties committee, which is holding hearings on Facebook’s practices, as well as a stop in Paris, where Mr. Zuckerberg is set to have lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss a range of issues.
Senior European officials and lawmakers were quick to question why Mr. Zuckerberg’s meeting in Brussels would be private. While the Facebook chief executive had been hesitant to appear before government inquiries in the past, opting to send lawyers or senior deputies in his stead, he faced a two-day public grilling in Congress last month.
His planned appearance in Brussels highlights the breadth of the international concern over how Facebook failed to prevent political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica from obtaining and using the data of many as 87 million of its users.
“Our citizens deserve a full and detailed explanation,” the European Parliament’s president, Antonio Tajani, said in a statement posted on Twitter. “I welcome Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to appear in person.”
Mr. Tajani added: “It is a step in the right direction toward restoring confidence.”
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Don’t just look at how Fakebook abuses the personal data of its own users. Fakebook has datamined BILLIONS of photos from Instagram (hashtags, biometric face recognition, locations, content, all to feed their AI Beast and make it ‘all knowing’).
Even if you don’t have a Fakebook account, you are profiled in their data they will eventually sell.
When something is free, you are the product being sold.
He's worth more than many of their countries.
Apology tour...my a**. Follow the money.
Facebook....There shall be no free speech.
Everybody bends over backwards and postures for King Zuck. What he did should put him in prison. I think he has a huge part in the Clinton scandal.
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