Parliament joint committee summons Facebook, Twitter over data privacy
Social media giants Facebook and Twitter have been
issued summons by a joint committee of Parliament on the issue of protection of
data and its privacy, sources said on Thursday.
Representatives
of Facebook India
have been asked to appear on Friday before the Joint Committee on the Personal
Data Protection Bill, 2019, chaired by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, while Twitter officials are
required to appear before the panel on October 28, as per the notice issued by
the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
Summoning
officials of Amazon and Google on the same issue is also under active
consideration of the joint committee of Parliament, the sources said. When
contacted Lekhi said, "Whosoever is required, whether an individual or an
entity, will be asked to depose before the panel on the issue of protection of
data and its privacy and their respective social media platforms will be
thoroughly examined by the panel.
"It
would be inappropriate and unfair to look at the calling of social media
platform from the political prism. The committee has representatives from
across the political spectrum and the deliberations on the bill are being held
from the national interest perspective,"
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