Twitter Head of Public Policy to appear before Parl panel

Twitter Chief Eexecutive Officer Jack Dorsey will not appear before the Parliamentary panel on IT on February 25, and instead the company is sending its Head of Public Policy Colin Crowell. The Parliamentary panel on Information Technology had summoned Twitter head Jack Dorsey to appear before it on February 25, and had refused to meet “junior officials” of the microblogging site during its meeting on February 11.

The meeting had been called against the backdrop of growing concerns about safeguarding citizens’ data privacy and the possibility of social media platforms being used to interfere in the upcoming elections. After this meeting, the panel is expected to summon top executives of Facebook and WhatsApp on March 5 to discuss similar issues.