Zuckerberg under pressure to face EU lawmakers over data scandal


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 19 Apr 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing regarding the company's use and protection of user data on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 11, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis

STRASBOURG: Facebook Inc's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg came under pressure from EU lawmakers on April 18 to come to Europe and shed light on the data breach involving Cambridge Analytica that affected nearly three million Europeans.

The world's largest social network is under fire worldwide after information about nearly 87 million users wrongly ended up in the hands of the British political consultancy, a firm hired by Donald Trump for his 2016 US presidential election campaign.

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