{"id":23617,"date":"2018-11-28T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23617"},"modified":"2018-11-28T23:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:22:45","slug":"can-facebook-be-forced-to-comply-with-privacy-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23617","title":{"rendered":"Can Facebook be forced to comply with privacy laws?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"86.8574074074\">\n<p>Politicians from nine countries gathered at the British Parliament for a hearing on misinformation and fake news.<\/p>\n<p>They left an empty chair for the Chief Executive of Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/mark-zuckerberg.html\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, his non-appearance, some suggested, said it all.<\/p>\n<p>They wanted to quiz him about his network&#8217;s practices, as Facebook has been heavily criticised over its use and treatment of users&#8217; data.<\/p>\n<p>It was left to the company&#8217;s vice president of policy solutions to answer the MPs questions.<\/p>\n<p>They wanted to know about political adverts and possible interference in the 2016 US elections and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/events\/brexit.html\">Brexit vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company insists it complies with data protection laws, but admits it has made mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does the social media giant do with its users&#8217; data?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preslav Nakov &#8211; Senior scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute at Hamad Bin Khalifa University<\/p>\n<p>Jillian York &#8211; Director of International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Freedom Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Aral Balkan &#8211; Cyborg rights activist focusing on social justice in the digital age<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians from nine countries gathered at the British Parliament for a hearing on misinformation and fake news. They left an empty chair for the Chief Executive of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, his non-appearance, some suggested, said it all. They wanted to quiz him about his network&#8217;s practices, as Facebook has been heavily criticised over its use&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}