Facebook Officials Head to Europe to Respond to Data Scandal

  • Data of up to 2.7 million Europeans may have been misused
  • EU justice chief Jourova to have call with Sandberg next week
Sheryl SandbergPhotographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
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Facebook Inc. officials will be traveling -- or at least making phone calls -- to Europe to respond to concerns that the data of as many as 2.7 million people in the European Union might have been shared with a consulting firm that worked on Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential campaign.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is planing a call with the EU’s justice commissioner, while the company’s top technology officer is expected to appear before a U.K. parliament committee and its deputy privacy chief will head to Italy.