EU, Facebook planning high-level contacts over data scandal

BRUSSELS: Facebook Inc expressed a “willingness to engage” with European Union regulators in the wake of fresh evidence showing that data on most of the social network’s two billion users could have been accessed improperly.

Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova is in touch with Facebook “to arrange for high-level contacts in the coming days,” her spokesman Christian Wigand told reporters at a briefing here on Thursday. Wigand said the Menlo Park, California-based company contacted the EU in response to a letter from Jourova last month.