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Facebook's Zuckerberg and Sandberg will disregard subpoenas to appear in front of Canada-hosted International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy

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  1. Deimos
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    This committee just started meeting tonight, more info about the agenda here: http://www.bobzimmer.ca/agenda-for-international-grand-committee-on-big-data-privacy-and-democracy-released/ And the...

    This committee just started meeting tonight, more info about the agenda here: http://www.bobzimmer.ca/agenda-for-international-grand-committee-on-big-data-privacy-and-democracy-released/

    And the news release from when they subpoena'd them: http://www.bobzimmer.ca/committee-summons-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-and-sheryl-sandberg-to-appear-at-international-grand-committee-on-big-data-privacy-and-democracy/

    If you haven't already watched it, I highly recommend this recent TED talk by Carole Cadwalladr which discusses the difficulty they had with trying to get them to appear in the UK as well: Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy

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