Par panel summons Twitter head on Feb 25

The Parliamentary panel on Information Technology has summoned the head of microblogging site Twitter to appear before it on February 25, the committee’s chairman Anurag Thakur said on Monday.

Committee members took a serious note about the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey not appearing before it on Monday. While representatives from Twitter’s India office reached the meeting venue here, they were not called in for deliberations by the panel, according to sources.

The panel decided to call Twitter officials against the backdrop of growing concerns about safeguarding citizens’ data privacy and possibility that social media could be used to interfere in elections.