The British Parliament confiscates thousands of internal Facebook documents

The British Parliament confiscates thousands of internal Facebook documents

The reports contain "important revelations" about the company led by Zuckerberg when the Cambridge Analytica scandal occurred

   The British Parliament has used, in an extraordinary way, its legal powers to confiscate internal documents from Facebook in an attempt to hold the company led by Mark Zuckerberg accountable for its negligence in the use of data and respect for the privacy of its users.

   According to The Observer, these documents contain "important revelations" about the decisions taken by Facebook - and reflected in confidential emails between executives and Zuckerberg - that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal , accused of collecting the data of 87 million users through an application.

The chairman of the Culture, Media and Sports Committee, Damian Collins, has resorted to an exceptional parliamentary mechanism to force the founder of a US software company, Six4Tree, associated with Facebook, to deliver the documents.

"We are in unknown territory," said Collins, who also chairs an investigation into false news. "This is an unprecedented movement, but it is an unprecedented situation. We do not get answers from Facebook and we believe that the documents contain information of very high public interest ».