EU, Facebook planning high-level contacts over data scandal


  • TECH
  • Friday, 06 Apr 2018

Reacting out of fear: Some experts feel that Europe's policies regulating American tech companies are excessive and merely an exercise in buying time until they can catch up to the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon.

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 2 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 in Brussels Thursday. Wigand said the Menlo Park, California-based company contacted the EU in response to a letter from Jourova last month. 

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