Following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hearing this evening in the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament, the ALDE Group believes Mark Zuckerberg’s answers were inadequate. Facebook has a long list of questions to answer regarding their past and current behaviour and practices. Users whose data has been misused and breached must be informed individually and compensation offered. «The responses we received today from Mr Zuckerberg, and indeed the restricted format of today’s hearing, were totally inadequate, said President of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt, after the hearing. Today’s pre-cooked format was inappropriate and helped to ensure that Mr Zuckerberg could get away without answering any of our fundamental questions. I trust as a minimum that written answers from Facebook will be forthcoming. If these written questions are not accurately answered in detail the EU competition authorities will have to be activated and legislation sharpened. It may be time to break up this monopoly to protect the privacy of our citizens, like we did in the past with Standard Oil and the Bells».
Photo: Antonio Tajani, EP President meets with Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook / Photographe LDI – DBA – DHO / Copyright © European Union 2018 – Source: EP