We wouldnt want the same to happen in Brussels.<\/p>\n
To inspire lawmakers who will be questioning the Facebook chief, POLITICO polled a group of MEPs, lawyers, digital interest groups and privacy activists for their views on the most pressing issues facing Facebook. Not surprisingly, they wanted to know how Facebook plans to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, an overhaul of privacy rules that will be enforced from May 25.<\/p>\n
Here is our suggestion for how they might go about the questioning:<\/p>\n
Good afternoon, Mr. Zuckerberg. Lets start with GDPR.<\/h3>\n
\u2014 Mr. Zuckerberg, the famous picture of your notes when speaking on Capitol Hill<\/a>, taken by a photographer of the Associated Press, said: \u201cDont say we already do what GDPR requires.\u201d Would you say Facebook already does what GDPR requires?<\/p>\n \u2014 Your company recently changed its privacy policy and introduced a set of tools for users to review their settings. You asked users to reconsider whether they want to share sensitive data like their religion. If a user said \u201cno,\u201d does this mean Facebook has deleted or will delete this data from its records?<\/p>\n \u2014 Is it correct that advertisers can target people on Facebook based on characteristics such as \u201ccommunism,\u201d \u201cChristianity,\u201d or \u201cLGBT issues\u201d? Processing \u201cspecial categories of data\u201d (sometimes called sensitive data) is prohibited under the GPDR. Which exception to the prohibition does Facebook invoke? Does Facebook claim that people gave their \u201cexplicit consent\u201d for such targeting (Article 9(2)(a)<\/a> of GDPR)?<\/p>\n \u2014 Facebooks new data use policy leaves room for diverging interpretations. The data use policy<\/a> seems to suggest that Facebook does not rely on the users consent, but on another legal basis<\/a>: necessity for contract performance. Could you explicitly say which legal basis (in Article 6<\/a> of GDPR) Facebook invokes for personal data processing for targeted advertising on its site?<\/p>\n The chaotic scene around Zuckerbergs U.S. Senate hearing | Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/p>\n \u2014 After years of having Facebooks international operations based in Ireland, you recently announced you were pulling data on users internationally to data centers outside of the EU. How does this affect the turnover of this Ireland-based legal entity, and does this mean a GDPR fine of 4 percent global turnover would be smaller now than it was before this change?<\/p>\n \u2014 The GDPR includes new provisions on profiling and automated decision-making. How are you going to change your ad targeting practices to be compliant?<\/p>\n European data protection authorities are looking into the impact of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in their countries. As a group, they are supporting the U.K.s Information Commissioners Office in its probe of Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the use of data in political campaigning. The European Commission, too, is looking at how it can help avoid such large-scale use of personal data for political purposes \u2014 which European Justice Commissioner V\u011bra Jourov\u00e1 has likened to \u201ccommunist\u201d voter manipulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014 If a user sees a political message, how can the user easily see why and how he was targeted?<\/p>\n \u2014 How much, in percentages of the global turnover and in absolute figures, did Facebook earn on targeted political advertising linked to the campaign around the U.K. referendum on Brexit? And how much during the U.S. election in 2016? How much of this income came directly from political parties?<\/p>\n \u2014 If a similar situation to the data misuse of Cambridge Analytica were to happen again, who would be responsible: Facebook Inc. or Facebook Ireland?<\/p>\n \u2014 You have said you will take action on how foreign interests buy targeted advertising. The Irish political campaigns around the abortion referendum show many of the problems persist, with an MP calling it a \u201ccompletely rudderless, completely unpoliced situation.\u201d Within which time frame would you argue Facebook is able to better deal with such problems?<\/p>\n In his press statement announcing Zuckerbergs visit, Parliament President Antonio Tajani suggested the meeting could include discussions on issues like how Facebook deals with illegal content, misinformation and fake news, and paying publishers. Right-wing groups have suggested they want to discuss freedom of expression on Facebook \u2014 a topic linked to how the platform deletes illegal posts or manages harmful content.<\/p>\n So lets take a short diversion from privacy and see what they can ask Zuckerberg on that.<\/p>\n \u2014 Is there a need for stricter rules for platforms like those that exist for traditional media? (Asking for a friend.)<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 You said in your U.S. Congress hearing that Facebook is responsible for the content on the platform. Does that mean Facebook would be open to reopening Europes limited liability regime in the e-Commerce Directive?<\/p>\n Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament | Andreas Solaro\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n \u2014 France wants to regulate fake news on platforms and Germany has already instituted its own law against online hate speech. If more countries come up with such rules or if there is a pan-European regulation of the same nature, what will that mean for Facebooks bottom line?<\/p>\n \u2014 What other changes can we foresee in Facebooks fight against fake news and hate speech and other \u201cbad content\u201d?<\/p>\n \u2014 Advertisers and publishers complain that they are forced to deal with only one or two dominant players in the digital marketplace for content and advertising. How would you convince EU officials that Facebook doesnt pose competition problems?<\/p>\n The meeting with Facebooks CEO is officially a Conference of Presidents meeting, the European Parliaments highest-level decision-making group. It includes the leaders of every political group in Parliament. Jan Philipp Albrecht, who co-authored Europes new privacy rulebook, will be in the room with Zuckerberg, as will the Chairman of the civil liberties committee Claude Moraes. Leaders will speak in turn and have the time to ask Zuckerberg one question and one follow-up to his answer on the question.<\/p>\n No doubt, many questions will remain unanswered.<\/p>\n Inspiration for these questions was drawn from conversations with legal experts on privacy issues, conversations with European Parliament and EU officials, the European Digital Rights association (which published its own list of questions<\/a> earlier) and documents and letters sent to Facebook by Europes data protection authorities<\/a> and the European Commission<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n Joanna Plucinska contributed to this article. <\/p>\n Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n [contf] [contfnew] European officials are finally getting a chance to grill Mar..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GettyImages-944396286-714x482.jpg\"\/)
<\/p>\nWe need to talk about data and politics.<\/h3>\n
Privacy isnt the only issue youre facing in Europe.<\/h3>\n
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