The top members of the Senate Intelligence Committee want the chief executive officers of Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Twitter Inc to appear at a public hearing to answer questions about the security of their platforms, including the companies’ relationships with Chinese telecommunications firms.
Lawmakers in the US and elsewhere are increasingly scrutinizing big tech companies, particularly over how they collect reams of personal data from their users and what they do with it. Several members of Congress had also criticized Facebook in recent days after the company revealed it had data-sharing partnerships with four Chinese consumer-device makers.
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