Bloomberg Law
April 6, 2018, 6:31 PM UTC

EU, Facebook Planning High-Level Contacts Over Data Scandal

Facebook Inc. expressed a “willingness to engage” with European Union regulators in the wake of fresh evidence showing that data on most of the social network’s 2 billion users could have been accessed improperly.

Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova is in touch with Facebook “to arrange for high-level contacts in the coming days,” her spokesman Christian Wigand told reporters at a briefing in Brussels April 5. Wigand said the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company contacted the EU in response to a letter from Jourova in March.

Facebook on April 4 said data on as many as 87 million people, most of them ...

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