Demands Grow for Facebook to Explain Its Privacy Policies
Demands Grow for Facebook to Explain Its Privacy Policies Photo A sign outside Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The company is coming under increasing scrutiny after a political data firm got access to private information on 50 million Facebook users. Credit Jason Henry for The New York Times A parade of regulators, politicians and law enforcement officials demanded to know more about Facebook’s privacy practices on Monday, as the fallout from the company’s relationship with a political data firm continued to spread.
Early in the day, the Federal Trade Commission confirmed reports that it was investigating how Facebook handles information about its users.
Soon after, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, invited Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, to testify about privacy standards next month. He also extended invitations to Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, and Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey..