Indonesia MPs grill Facebook officials on data breaches


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 18 Apr 2018

Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Facebook logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Files

JAKARTA: Facebook official apologised to Indonesian members of parliament on April 17 during a five-hour grilling at a public hearing on issues ranging from the misuse of personal data to the oversight of content by the social media giant.

Facebook has been hit by revelations that data of some 87 million users were improperly accessed by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which worked on US President Donald Trump's election campaign.

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