Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took another grilling from lawmakers this week — this time, from European ones. Tuesday’s meeting with European Parliament members comes about a month after he appeared before Congress for a set of hearings on data protections. We’ll learn about how the two hearings compared. We’ll also hear about Europe’s incoming General Data Protection Regulation from Lilian Edwards, a professor at the University of Strathclyde.
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