European Union officials want answers on Facebook data scandal
Facebook officials will be traveling — or at least making phone calls — to Europe to respond to concerns that the data of as many as 2.7 million people in the European Union might have been shared with a consulting firm that worked on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is planing a call with the EU’s justice commissioner, while Facebok’s top technology officer is expected to appear before a British parliament committee and its deputy privacy chief will head to Italy.
The company has been refining its response in the wake of revelations that data on as many as 87 million people, most of them in the U.S.