Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is meeting United States legislators today.
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg went back to Washington today to talk with United States legislators about prospective policy of tech business, the social media stated Tuesday.
Sandberg’s conferences come as Facebook works out a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the tech giant’s supposed personal privacy accidents. The FTC might fine Facebook approximately $5 billion, which would be a record for the company. Two senators on Monday prompted the FTC to hold Facebook’s executives responsible for the business’s personal privacy oversights.
A Facebook representative stated the conferences were long prepared and aren’t associated with the FTC examination. Sandberg is likewise meeting civil liberties groups, though Facebook didn’t state which ones.
Bloomberg, which reported earlier about the conferences, stated Sandberg was meeting members of the Senate. That consisted of Sen. Roger Wicker. a Republican from Mississippi and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, who consulted with her to speak about prospective federal personal privacy policy. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Republican from Kansas, who’s likewise dealing with policy that might limit tech business from gathering and utilizing customer information, prepared to meet Sandberg, too. Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, likewise consulted with Sandberg, according to his workplace.
“As you know, we’ve been engaged in ongoing conversations about how we can put some guardrails around social media,” Warner informed press reporters in Washington on Tuesday. “We discussed the challenges, whether it’s from election interference or hate speech.”
Sens. Wicker and Moran didn’t right away react to an ask for remark. Facebook didn’t share anymore information about the conferences.
The FTC began examining Facebook after discoveries emerged in 2015 that UK political consulting company Cambridge Analytica collected the information of approximately 87 million users without their consent. United States legislators have actually been under more pressure to manage tech business after Facebook’s series of personal privacy and security scandals.
Facebook states it isn’t opposed to policy. Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in April required more policy around damaging material, election stability, personal privacy and information mobility. Zuckerberg is anticipated to meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, according to the president’s workplace.
Originally released May 7, 2: 19 p.m. PT.
Update, 2: 35 p.m.: Adds remark from Warner’s workplace and background about Zuckerberg’s conference in France.
