Is it possible?‘“The hospital that makes fun of charity”? During HE European Union (EU) queryAbout Facebook’s anti-competitive practices and management of private data, Mark Zuckerberg’s social network files complaint against EU over privacy violation. In fact, some of the information that Brussels requested, “Employees’ privacy » From Facebook, if we are to believe our colleagues at the Financial Times.
Facebook refuses to hand over employees’ personal data to EU
But the American social network Already provided nearly 2 million pages To the committee responsible for the fileall in all about 300,000 documents ext. Facebook said some of the requested documents ” irrelevant », is not relevant to the main purpose of this investigation. According to Timothy Lamb, Facebook’s legal director for competition and regulation, this is, above all, “an email.”The Commission’s demands are extremely broad » this takes the desire away from the initial goal.
In detail, the social network judges:Some of the documents requested by the EU are: too much personal informationsome even ” ENtosensitive “. In this case, specific documents will include: medical information, personal financial documents or, Private information regarding employees’ family membersS.
As a reminder, Facebook was convicted A small fine of 30,000 € following a complaint made by‘UFC-Que Choiravailable 2019. Social network took 5 billion euro fine in summer 2019, After the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Few months later,The social network once again faces a fine of up to 35 billion euros For misusing facial recognition.
According to the Financial Times, Facebook has asked the EU to be able to: Advice These sensitive documents are in a secure roomso that no copies are made. The proposal was rejected by the commission conducting the investigation. Facebook is “hears” completely cooperadicate » In Europe, this complaint is still preparing to delay the procedure.
Source : Financial Times
