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The meeting comes three days before tough new European Union
rules on data protection take effect. Companies will be subject
to fines of up to 4 percent of global turnover for breaching
them.
Facebook has come under scrutiny from politicians on both sides
of the Atlantic after it emerged that Cambridge Analytica, a
British political consultancy that worked on U.S. President
Donald Trump's campaign, improperly acquired the data of 87
million users, including up to 2.7 million in the EU.
Zuckerberg has apologized for the leak in testimony to the U.S.
Congress, but questions remain over how the company's data
policies let the leak happen.
Zuckerberg will stress Facebook's commitment to Europe, where it
will employ 10,000 people by the end of the year, according to
pre-released remarks.
"I believe deeply in what we're doing. And when we address these
challenges, I know we'll look back and view helping people
connect and giving more people a voice as a positive force here
in Europe and around the world," Zuckerberg is expected to say.
He will also apologise for failing "to take a broad enough view"
of the company's responsibilities, "whether it’s fake news,
foreign interference in elections or developers misusing
people’s information."
Zuckerberg will meet with the president of the European
Parliament, Antonio Tajani, the leaders of the parliament's
political groups and the chair of the civil liberties committee,
Claude Moraes.
The meeting will be livestreamed after an outcry over plans to
hold it in private.
Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has suspended
200 apps from its platforms as it investigates third-party apps
that have access to large quantities of user data.
Cambridge Analytica and its British parent, SCL Elections Ltd,
have declared bankruptcy and closed down.
(Reporting by Julia Fioretti, editing by Larry King)
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