He may not be a UK citizen, but if they are planning to operate in the UK, they have to abide by our laws. This has picked up a bit of public interest here, particularly as it has happened in tandem with the Cambridge Analytica stuff.
If more comes out surrounding this, which would not be unlikely as that's just how these things seem to go, Facebook could be given a hard time.
if they are planning to operate in the UK, they have to abide by our laws
He doesn't have to. That's what they're missing. Facebook may have some servers inside the UK, but they don't need them. Facebook can leave the UK borders and only have a minor inconvenience, and still have all the UK public follow them elsewhere.
Zuckerberg hold all the cards. The UK has no power over him.
I'm glad it's getting a lot of interest. I hope it becomes very clear to them that they have no control or power over Facebook, and Zuckerberg has no morality. If they understood that, they might stop giving him the data and power.
If more comes out surrounding this..
I'm excited about the possibility of Google and Microsoft getting caught up in this. It looks like the US congress is going to want to talk to them. If they ask the right questions, they will learn that they all do the same shit.
I dream about watching all three crash and burn. It won't happen, but I can dream.
Zuckerberg hold all the cards. The UK has no power over him.
I believe Facebook could be fined up to £17m for each mishandling of UK citizens data. We have laws in the UK and the EU surrounding the transfer of user data to foreign countries and how it should be handled/what you can do with the data. It used to be that in a case of a security breach, for example, companies could be fined up to £500,000 by the Information Commissioner. However, we recently changed these laws, I may have posted about it here a while ago. Companies can now be fined 4% of their global turnover, with a £17m cap for each instance of mishandling user info, or even just being hacked and inadvertently disclosing the data of UK citizens if they are found to have slacked on security.
So whilst Facebook is not a UK company, they are certainly not bulletproof when it comes to stuff that affects UK citizens. I don't know what the process is for actually fining a foreign company in this way, but I assume it is a possibility otherwise we wouldn't have the laws.
Who does this MP think he is? That they ever though Zuckerberg would answer to them is the only 'astonishing' part.
Zuckerberg's not a UK citizen. He has no responsibility to them. Why would he care what they want?
Concern from Facebook users?? Hahaha, these politicians are so out of touch.