Facebook news: MP Damian Collins says it is "disappointing" that Facebook "chooses not to provide a sufficient level of detail and transparency."

MPs have again criticised Facebook for submitting "insufficient" evidence to a parliamentary inquiry about how it handles data.

Damian Collins, chair of the digital, culture, media and sports committee, published Facebook's evidence sent in response to a previous letter which put 39 outstanding questions to the social media firm.

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His committee criticised the company, saying its answers did not fully address each point about how it handles UK citizens' data with sufficient detail.

Their criticism follows an announcement by regulators that they are going to pursue their investigation into scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica despite the firm announcing its collapse.

Facebook has said that up to 87 million people may have had data harvested by a personality test app which was then acquired by the company.

More than a million of these were in the UK. Its chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer was questioned by MPs as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg chose not to appear before Parliament.

The MPs plan to write to Facebook again to address gaps in its answers about how UK citizens may have been affected.

The British inquiry comes after Mr Zuckerberg was grilled by Congress in the aftermath of the company being implicated in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Continue reading...

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