Mark Zuckerberg will meet MEPs but without an audience

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Several politicians believe that this interview should be held in public. Some even decided to boycott it.

After several weeks of negotiations, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg finally agreed to meet MEPs in Brussels, but in camera, to explain the use of the personal data of its millions of users after the Cambridge scandal. Analytica. Zuckerberg "will be in Brussels as soon as possible, I hope next week", for an exchange with the presidents of the various political groups in Parliament, announced Wednesday the head of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, in a statement.

The meeting will be held in camera during a "conference of presidents", which traditionally takes place on Thursday, said a source in Parliament. "Too bad the hearing is not public. There are more Facebook users in the EU than in the US, and Europeans deserve to know how their data is processed, "EU Consumer Commissioner Vera Jourova said in a tweet. "It's not your job to control and criticize Parliament," Tajani told him.

The president of the liberal group (Alde), Guy Verhofstadt, has already announced that he would boycott the meeting if it was actually held in private. "It must be a public hearing - why not a Facebook Live? ", Tweeted the former Belgian Prime Minister. The environmental group also regretted that the meeting was held in camera.
The Elysee announced, a few minutes after the European Parliament, that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, would receive Mr. Zuckerberg, as well as fifty leaders of major digital companies, in Paris on Wednesday, May 23, which suggests that the arrival of the American in Brussels could take place the next day.

His visit to Europe is organized just days before the entry into force on 25 May of the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which obliges Internet groups to adjust their terms of use for Europeans.

Contacted by AFP, Facebook said that the meeting in the European Parliament would be an opportunity to "dialogue, listen to the views (of MEPs) and show the measures" taken by the Internet giant "to better protect the people's privacy ".

 "I welcome the decision of Mr Zuckerberg to appear in person before the representatives of 500 million Europeans. This is a step in the right direction towards restoring confidence, "said Mr. Tajani. "This is a strong message" sent "to European consumers", was also welcomed the German Manfred Weber, leader of the European People's Party (EPP, right), the main group in Parliament.

End of non-reception for British parliamentarians

Antonio Tajani had, from March 20 and the outbreak of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the name of the company that has unwittingly exploited the data of tens of millions of Facebook users, invited the CEO of Facebook to come speak before the MEPs. But Mark Zuckerberg, who testified in public for ten hours in front of US officials last month, had initially proposed that it is the vice president of public affairs of his group that comes before them. Mark Zuckerberg was also asked by the British parliament to talk, among other things, about the Cambridge Analytica case, which he refused. It was finally the technical director Mike Schroepfer who had to go to the coal.

The fear of election manipulation via personal information retrieved from social networks has gone up a notch with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016. Facebook is also accused, like Twitter and Google, to let proliferate Russian interference to manipulate public opinion during the same campaign.

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