EU gives Zuckerberg ‘get out of jail free card’ in Facebook privacy grilling
Luxembourg — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg left European Union legislators fuming over unanswered questions at the end of a hearing that began with a mea culpa for the company’s recent privacy woes. At a meeting at the EU Parliament, Zuckerberg repeated what he’s been telling every audience recently: that his company didn’t take a broad enough view of its responsibility for user data, fake news and foreign interference in elections and that he is sorry for that. But at a session where lawmakers got to ask all their questions in one go at the start, he annoyed them by batting many of them away — including on whether people can opt out of advertising and also on whether the US giant is a monopoly that needs to be broken up. "Unfortunately the format was a get out of jail free card and gave Zuckerberg too much room to avoid the difficult questions," said Syed Kamall, a British centre-right legislator who attended the meeting in Brussels. The revelations that the data of as many as 8...
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