UK Officials Will Summon Mark Zuckerberg To Testify if He Won't Do So Voluntarily

UK officials said Tuesday they will summon Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Parliament the next time he’s in British territory if he does not volunteer to do so. From a report: It would be the first governmental summons for Zuckerberg in the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica data leak and widespread concerns around user privacy. “It’s worth noting that, while Mr. Zuckerberg does not normally come under the jurisdiction of the UK Parliament, he will do so the next time he enters the country,” Damian Collins, a member of the UK Parliament, wrote in a letter published Tuesday. “There are over 40 million Facebook users in the UK and they deserve to hear accurate answers from the company he created and whether it is able to keep their users’ data safe,” Collins wrote.

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