FB Founder's European Parliament testimony leaves lawmakers frustrated
FB Founder's European Parliament testimony leaves lawmakers frustrated
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Brussels [European Union], May 23 (NT): Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed regret on Tuesday (local time) to the legislator of the European Union (EU) over the social media giant’s alleged role in the Cambridge Analytica’s data scandal.

However, Facebook founder made Members of European Parliament (MEP) s "frustrated" as Zuckerberg was evading from questions during a cross-examination at the European Parliament.

"I asked you six yes and no questions. I got not a single answer," Green party politician Philippe Lamberts quoted by CNN, as saying.

Guy Verhofstadt, chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, acknowledged the format of inquiring "pre-cooked" and adding that “ensured Zuckerberg could avoid our questions,” as ANI reported.

The testimony appears three days before hard-hitting laws on data protection come into effect in the EU. Organizations would be fined 4 percent of global turnover if found breaching the laws.

Zuckerberg was pushed on Facebook's responsibility for the Cambridge Analytica data scandel, its acquiescence with new EU privacy laws. According to reports a dozen of the Parliament's leaders in Brussels appered in the hearing, which ran for about 90-minute with.

 

In 2015The US government and EU were in an open clash, when it pulled out a data sharing agreement because of "mass indiscriminate surveillance and interception" of personal data by the US authorities, as CNN reported.

 

 

 

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