Facebook has not yet responded to a second request from the European Union to testify before the 28-nation legislature.
The EU issued its second invitation to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the legislature regarding the widening privacy scandal stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova spoke with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Friday and urged the tech giant to accept the invitation to appear before Parliament and explain the situation, the Associated Press reported.
“I expect that Mr. Zuckerberg will take this invitation because I believe that face-to-face communication and being available for such communication will be a good sign that Mr. Zuckerberg understands the European market,” Jourova told CNBC Friday.
Parliament member Guy Verhofstadt said Facebook has more active users in Europe than in the U.S. Facebook acknowledged last week that up to 2.7 million users in the EU have already fallen victim to the Cambridge Analytica breach, which could have compromised their personal information.
“We expect Mark Zuckerberg to come to the European Parliament and explain how he will make sure Facebook respects [the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation],” Verhofstadt tweeted Friday.
Facebook has more active users in Europe than in the US. We expect Mark Zuckerberg to come to the European Parliament and explain how he will make sure Facebook respects GDPR https://t.co/WL2FzPvyp3
— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) April 13, 2018
Facebook has not yet decided on a plan of action in response to the request from Parliament, a Facebook spokesperson told the Washington Examiner.
Zuckerberg appeared before Congress two days last week, and spent several hours discussing the data breach and Facebook’s privacy and handling of personal information.
