UK Parliament Asks Mark Zuckerberg to Testify Over Facebook’s ‘Catastrophic Failure’

British lawmakers want answers on data leak of 50 million users

British Parliament would like to see Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and it’s not to grant him honorary citizenship.

The U.K.’s Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee has asked the chief exec on Tuesday to testify in front of Parliament on how the social network protects its mountain of user data. Damian Collins, the chairman of the committee, was spurred on by the revelation 50 million users had their information unknowingly harvested by data firm Cambridge Analytica.

“It is now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process,” wrote Collins in his written request to Zuckerberg.

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