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Aaron P. Bernstein | Reuters
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees hearing regarding the company’s use and protection of user data, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2018.
Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday declined an invitation to testify before UK officials, but he’s agreed to testify before the EU Parliament as soon as next week.
“The Conference of Presidents has agreed that Mark Zuckerberg should come to clarify issues related to the use of personal data in a meeting with representatives of the European Parliament,” Parliament President Antonio Tajani said in a statement. “The founder and CEO of Facebook has accepted our invitation and will be in Brussels as soon as possible, hopefully already next week.”
EU officials have issued some of the strictest regulation on Silicon Valley in recent months, most notably the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, that is requiring major tech firms like Facebook, Twitter and Google to significantly adjust privacy policies.
Facebook is facing governmental probes from regulators around the world in the wake of reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the sensitive information of as many as 87 million Facebook users.
“Our citizens deserve a full and detailed explanation,” Tajani said. “Web giants must be responsible for the content they publish.”
Here’s Tajani’s full statement:
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