{"id":411375,"date":"2018-03-20T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=411375"},"modified":"2018-03-20T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:18:24","slug":"zukerberg-summoned-uk-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/zukerberg-summoned-uk-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Zukerberg summoned to UK parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has been called on by a parliamentary committee to give evidence about the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n
The UK-based political consulting firm is accused of using the data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the 2016 US presidential election.<\/p>\n
Damian Collins, the chairman of the Commons inquiry into fake news, accused Facebook of “misleading” the committee.<\/p>\n
London-based firm Cambridge Analytica denies any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
Mr Collins said\u00a0earlier in the week\u00a0that he wanted to hear from Mr Zuckerberg but has now put the request into writing.<\/p>\n
In the letter, he says: “It is now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process.”<\/p>\n
It comes after the UK’s Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said she would be applying to court for a warrant to search the offices of Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n
The firm insists it followed the correct procedures in obtaining and using data,\u00a0but it was suspended from Facebook last week.<\/p>\n
Facebook shares fell by a further 3% on Tuesday, following a 6.7% drop on Monday\u00a0which wiped almost $37bn from its market value.<\/p>\n
The company will hold an open meeting with its employees later to discuss the matter,\u00a0tech news website The Verge is reporting.<\/p>\n