UK committee asks Zuckerberg to testify on ‘catastrophic’ Facebook privacy failure
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17142628/facebook-uk-dcms-committee-zuckerberg-testimony-data-privacy
A UK Parliamentary committee has asked Mark Zuckerberg to appear and provide testimony on how Facebook acquires, stores, and protects users’ data. Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, writes in a letter to Zuckerberg that Facebook officials have “consistently understated” the risk of data being taken without users’ consent and have misled the committee.
“It is now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process,” Collins writes. He specifically requests that Zuckerberg be the person to appear before the committee to answer for those failures, noting that the CEO made it his goal for the year to “fix” the site’s many issues. If not Zuckerberg, Collins asks for some other person “from right at the top” of the company.