archive.fo/6GPK9 >Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs’ questions.
>The cache of documents is alleged to contain significant revelations about Facebook decisions on data and privacy controls that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It is claimed they include confidential emails between senior executives, and correspondence with Zuckerberg.
>Damian Collins, the chair of the culture, media and sport select committee, invoked a rare parliamentary mechanism to compel the founder of a US software company, Six4Three, to hand over the documents during a business trip to London. In another exceptional move, parliament sent a serjeant at arms to his hotel with a final warning and a two-hour deadline to comply with its order. When the software firm founder failed to do so, it’s understood he was escorted to parliament. He was told he risked fines and even imprisonment if he didn’t hand over the documents.
>“We are in uncharted territory,” said Collins, who also chairs an inquiry into fake news. “This is an unprecedented move but it’s an unprecedented situation. We’ve failed to get answers from Facebook and we believe the documents contain information of very high public interest.”
>The seizure is the latest move in a bitter battle between the British parliament and the social media giant. The struggle to hold Facebook to account has raised concerns about limits of British authority over international companies that now play a key role in the democratic process.
>Facebook, which has lost more than $100bn in value since March when the Observer exposed how Cambridge Analytica had harvested data from 87m US users, faces another potential PR crisis. It is believed the documents will lay out how user data decisions were made in the years before the Cambridge Analytica breach, including what Zuckerberg and senior executives knew.
>MPs leading the inquiry into fake news have repeatedly tried to summon Zuckerberg to explain the company’s actions. He has repeatedly refused. Collins said this reluctance to testify, plus misleading testimony from an executive at a hearing in February, had forced MPs to explore other options for gathering information about Facebook operations.
>“We have very serious questions for Facebook. It misled us about Russian involvement on the platform. And it has not answered our questions about who knew what, when with regards to the Cambridge Analytica scandal,” he said.
>“We have followed this court case in America and we believed these documents contained answers to some of the questions we have been seeking about the use of data, especially by external developers.”
>The documents seized were obtained during a legal discovery process by Six4Three. It took action against the social media giant after investing $250,000 in an app. Six4Three alleges the cache shows Facebook was not only aware of the implications of its privacy policy, but actively exploited them, intentionally creating andeffectively flagging up the loophole that Cambridge Analytica used to collect data. That raised the interest of Collins and his committee.
Ian Parker
>A Facebook spokesperson said that Six4Three’s “claims have no merit, and we will continue to defend ourselves vigorously”.
>The files are subject to an order of a Californian superior court, so cannot be shared or made public, at risk of being found in contempt of court. Because the MPs’ summons was issued in London where parliament has jurisdiction, it is understood the company founder, although a US citizen, had no choice but to comply. It is understood that Six4Three have informed both the court in California and Facebook’s lawyers.
>Facebook said: “The materials obtained by the DCMS committee are subject to a protective order of the San Mateo Superior Court restricting their disclosure. We have asked the DCMS committee to refrain from reviewing them and to return them to counsel or to Facebook. We have no further comment.”
>It is unclear what, if any, legal moves Facebook can make to prevent publication. UK, Canada, Ireland, Argentina, Brazil, Singapore and Latvia will all have representatives joining what looks set to be a high-stakes encounter between Facebook and politicians.
>Richard Allan, vice-president for policy who will testify at the special session after Zuckerberg declined to attend, said the company takes its responsibility around “a number of important issues around privacy, safety and democracy ... very seriously”.
you need to give me some foreplay first its a sunday morning im NOT getting into a multi thousand page reading spree cold here
Hunter Roberts
>communications with CA Hes so fucked lol
Gavin Butler
It's an American company, out of our jurisdiction, most you could do is sue their UK revenues. But that's nothing when they can influence everything including elections. It's best politicians get on the Zucks side.
Cambridge Analytica was a mossad intelligence agency and the election meddling was by Israel. Trump has no connection to them and Bannon is an israeli spy. The goal was to try and frame trump as colluding with russia.
Ethan Sullivan
That's because our Congress is bought by big business, the whole treasonous lot of them.
Ryan Lee
Trump better tell the Angloids if they ever detain another US citizen or refuse a US court order they will be annihilated
psssh right? who caaaares that people had been right FROM THE FUCKING START about kikebook being a spy organization. lets just say it's current year and be done with it. i mean there's no point pointing out the truth behind these government conspiracies, just label it off as a conspiracy nutjob aka alex jones.....ohh shit wait that nigger was right for the past 12 years...fuck.
Logan Robinson
Ignore the JIDF shills trying to make this seem small. he posted a provocative anime picture because the shill wants you to go fap and ignore this.
Isaac Brown
Interesting how you tell partial truth here about Israeli involvement in the election but specifically deny Trump was connected to Israel. LOL. Israel desperately wanted to toss out the Iran deal. They believed it was now or never, so they were desperate and willing to do whatever it takes, including install an American president. That's why they pushed Trump's candidacy.
You posted some non-responsive title from an op-ed that has nothing to do with anything I wrote. The only thing Netanyahu cared about was never having another Obama or anything like the nuke deal ever happen again. Israel views this as existential and is therefore willing to do whatever it takes. They installed Donald Trump. Obviously they want regime change, and lo and behold, they got fucking Bolton in there, so obviously they're doing pretty well on that front, too.
Not sure how stupid the public is that they can't see Israel installed Trump.
Oh, and JIDF/Israel-paid pieces of shit like you have prepared talking points you shit out online. It's typical kike "argument" style. As here, you're posting snippets out of context that don't even address the argument. You have a snide little adolescent insult in typical kike style, no better than "ur mom." The fact you're IMMEDIATELY all over any allegation that the Israelis installed Trump is extremely telling. About as telling as Adelson and Singer's ties to Trump, Trump's daughter marrying a kike, Trump's non-stop funding of Israel despite not even building a wall in the US, etc. You fuckers are on thin ice because now we have mozzies in Congress who hate your guts, and white Christian evangelicals are even waking up to what fucking cancer, parasite pieces of shit your little Mediterranean kike colony is.
One day, my kike friend, you're going to be forced to use the Samson option, and frankly I don't give a fuck--fucking do it. Every single one of you motherfuckers is going to get wiped out.
An American executive of an American company with confidential documents of/from another American company gets dragged into a foreign country's parliament and ordered to hand it over? I'm all for Facebook being scoured from the earth, but this cuck should really have told these limeys to go fuck themselves.
Easton Williams
kys
Kevin Bennett
They can fully expose them.
Hudson Cooper
I can't help the feeling the the Zuck is secretly one of us.
I mean... look at him...
Spergy AF, Asian Waifu. I'm sure he toes a certain line for appearance sake, but you can't deny the fact that FB helped us redial countless (actual) boomers in 2016...
Eli Turner
Get the fuck out of here shlomberg porn posting faggot.
thats still not enough since the zuck has millions of normies who dont care.
Connor Nelson
cool story hasbara
Aiden Cox
What does it matter? Normies are their own worst enemy
Hunter Bell
just look at india and europe .he still has so many users there .I am not sure if he can be killed the myspace way and dont forget he owns whatsapp too.
They're operating in a foreign country. As such, they are subject to the laws of that country. Facebook (and most of these other multinationals) are not "American" company in any real sense of the word.
Caleb Mitchell
Like I said, let Facebook burn. But real Americans don't cotton to fascists. The faggot should have taken the L and shown the wig-wearing bongs his middle finger.
Josiah Hall
>But real Americans don't cotton to fascists. kek. Facebook and the intelligence agencies it works for are the real fascists.
Nathaniel Green
This.
If someone wrongs you, and you rush to their aide to stop the legal process from reprimanding them, you're once a faggot and forever a cuck.
Wayy before Mark Zucc sopposedly started it. Note this facebook founder and Mark's founder story are nearly the same. Boston Jew College kids jacking college info to create a directory of students.
Do either of you even know what Fascism is? Truthfully, it doesn't sound like you have a clue. I mean this guy doesn't even seem to understand that it wasn't actually the Bongs being given the middle finger, but the (((bankers))) who wanted debts repaid. The debts being repaid come from taxes, George III didn't want to increase taxes AGAIN because then he was in danger of getting Charles'd if a revolution took place. So the (((bankers))) advised he just tax the colonies on tea instead, what were a bunch of farmers halfway around the world going to do to the biggest empire in the world? Then we found out what they could do, the forefathers also knew who was to blame, which is specifically why the were forbidden from running American banks. The fact Americans didn't relent and hand them over immediately is exactly why you're being punished by the same (((bankers))) today. The same is true in Britain for having banished them for coin-clipping, Germany for daring to expose them to the world at large, France for having removed them in the first place etc. But you all seem to miss the bigger picture on this, you never appease anyone, least of all Jews, because remember le don't forgive le don't forget? Well that's Jews down to a fucking T. Look at the countries they punish, look at what those countries have given them for (((previous misgivings))). We both have share more blood than we do with anyone Jewish, but we're always at eachother's throats. Why? Easy, the more attention focused on one upping each other, the less attention is focused on the Jew. Hence why you thought Bongs were given the finger and not (((bankers))). You stupid fucking mutt.
Grayson Roberts
>Hence why you thought Bongs were given the finger and not (((bankers))). Nobody thinks the bongs were given the finger you mongoloid whore -- that's the whole point of my gripe. The dumb bastard caved in and handed over the documents the bongs were demanding.
