Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter to Testify About Data Privacy

If Facebook takes i thing away from 2017, it'south that data privacy is non to exist messed with, even if the visitor was not complicit in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the subsequent fallout. That fallout has now engulfed other major tech companies in the Silicon Valley.

As per recent reports,The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is ready to concord a hearing on September 26 chosen "Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy"

Senator John Thune, a Republican from Due south Dakota who chairs the committee, said the"hearing volition provide leading engineering science companies and net service providers an opportunity to explain their approaches to privacy, how they plan to accost new requirements from the European Wedlock and California, and what Congress tin can practice to promote clear privacy expectations without hurting innovation."

The commission hearing takes identify three weeks after Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared in front of 2 Congressional hearings. The pair answered questions relating to the hot topics of the solar day such as data privacy and meddling in U.Due south. elections past foreign countries.The executives existence called are expected to be asked what steps their companies tin take to improve the protection of consumers' privacy on their platforms.

The post-obit tech executives volition be attending the hearing to testify:

Len Cali, senior vice president for global public policy at AT&T
Andrew DeVore, vice president and acquaintance general counsel at Amazon
Keith Enright, principal privacy officer at Google
Damian Kieran, global information protection officeholder and associate legal managing director at Twitter
Guy (Bud) Tribble, vice president for software technology at Apple tree
Rachel Welch, senior vice president for policy and external diplomacy at Charter Communications

According to CNET, Twitter, Lease Communications, and AT&T accept confirmed that they will be attending the hearing. However, Google, Apple tree, and Amazon are all the same to comment on the same.