Facebook officials depose before Parliamentary panel, ‘fail to give satisfactory responses’

NEW DELHI: Facebook representatives failed to give satisfactory responses to the questions raised by the parliamentary committee on personal data protection bill, 2019, on the sensitive issues of storing data of Indian users outside the country, safeguarding its leakage and misuse, payment of corporate and other taxes here, ideological and other biases while blocking users and the process of vetting advertisements that appear on its site.

Facebook officials Ankhi Das and Bhairab Bhattacharya deposed before the joint committee on Friday during a sitting that lasted for more than two hours. Members cutting across party lines posed questions and most of them were not satisfied with the replies given by the company representatives.