LONDON — The Latest on Facebook’s privacy scandal (all times local):<\/p>\n
1:40 p.m.<\/p>\n
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet with leaders of the European parliament in a closed-door meeting next Tuesday about the data protection scandal that has engulfed his company.<\/p>\n
Even though his visit had been announced, it was left unclear exactly when Zuckerberg would visit the European Union legislature.<\/p>\n
The EU and British parliaments have been calling for Zuckerberg to appear before them for weeks ever since it emerged that a company, political consultants Cambridge Analytica, had been allowed to misuse the data of millions of Facebook users.<\/p>\n
The EU meeting however is set to be private with the leaders of the political groups and a justice and civil rights expert. Many in the European Parliament had been calling for a public hearing.<\/p>\n
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1 p.m.<\/p>\n
British lawmakers investigating the use of Facebook users’ data in political campaigns say the suspended head of the consultancy Cambridge Analytica has accepted a summons to appear before a committee.<\/p>\n
Parliament’s media committee said Thursday that Alexander Nix had accepted a summons to appear June 6. He had refused to appear before the committee last month, citing the ongoing investigation into the firm.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the committee said the former director of the campaign pushing for Britain’s departure from the European Union has refused a summons to appear.<\/p>\n
The committee says that “is a first step which could result in a decision that a contempt of Parliament has been committed.”<\/p>\n
Parliament has the power to punish people for being disrespectful, though in practice its powers are limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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