Facebook is in hot water for both helping change state America ’s corporate brain into glop and queer millions of users ’ datum to shadowy political operators . But now Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has an assailable invitation to tell Congress his side of the story . That is , if he accept an invitation send out today by the Senate Judiciary Committee .
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley has formally invited not only Zuckerberg , but Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify in front of Congress on April 10th .
Will they go ? We have no idea yet . If Zuckerberg , Pichai , and Dorsey do n’t get their asses to DC next calendar month , the committee could hale them to show up . They have subpoena power , so hypothetically Congress could oblige all three to testify .
Facebook got into this mess after it was bring out earlier this month that datum had been glean from over 50 million substance abuser by a psychology professor . That data was then grant to a firm called Cambridge Analytica , a political consultancy that count Donald Trump ’s presidential campaign among its node , which used the information to understand what would hit emotional button during the 2016 presidential election .
The news spillage from Grassley , first published on Twitter by journalist Todd Ruger , readsin part :
Grassley today invited Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify at the earshot to talk over Facebook ’s past and succeeding policies regarding the protective covering and monitoring of consumer data point .
The listening will loosely cover privacy standards for the collection , keeping and dissemination of consumer data for commercial-grade use . It will also examine how such data may be misused or improperly transferred and what steps company like Facebook can take to well protect role information of users and insure more transparence in the process .
Grassley also invited Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to discuss the futurity of data seclusion in the social media industriousness and how to develop “ rules of the road ” that encourage companies to develop tailored feeler to privateness that fulfill consumer expectations while maintaing incentives for innovation .
The UK has already invited Zuck to do something similarin the UK , though it ’s not exonerated yet if he ’s going to go .
Back in the US , some political leader on Capitol Hill have recently ( andmeekly ) suggested that perchance Zuckerberg should come evidence to Congress about the unmistakable damage the social media company has done to the US . But when these inquiries came up in the yesteryear , Facebook only broadcast sycophant like lawyer to give official statements .
In a more concrete move against the social medium colossus , however , the Federal Trade Commissionconfirmed todaythat it is actively enquire Facebook ’s privacy practice .
Gizmodo has reached out to all three companies — Google , Twitter , and Facebook — to see if any of the CEOs plan to travel to Washington DC on April 10th to testify . So far only Twitter has responded by enounce that the ship’s company does n’t have a comment . We ’ll update this military post if we hear back from Google and Facebook .
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