Germany Seeks Tighter Facebook Controls After ‘Intolerable’ Leak
- Transparency pledges by local Facebook officials ‘not enough’
- Merkel’s justice minister comments after talks in Berlin
EU's Jourova Says Facebook Case Is a Threat to Democracy, Will Set Precedent
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German Justice Minister Katarina Barley called Facebook Inc.’s handling of private data “intolerable” and said the government will tighten oversight of the social network.
Pledges by Facebook officials at a meeting in Berlin to disclose how many users were affected in the Cambridge Analytica data breach, inform the users and examine making algorithms more transparent were insufficient, Barley said.