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Live coverage: Facebook's Zuckerberg faces grilling in Congress

By The Hill Staff - 04/10/18 09:11 AM EDT

Mark Zuckerbergwill begin his marathon testimony before lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday in what is likely to be a blockbuster hearing and a make-or-break moment for the Facebook CEO.

Zuckerberg will testify before lawmakers on the Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees, who are expected to grill him on the controversy surrounding Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to President Trumpthat Facebook says improperly harvested data on as many as 87 million users for political targeting.

Zuckerberg made the rounds on Capitol Hill meeting with senators ahead of the hearing Tuesday afternoon, which is likely to stretch on for hours. He is also slated to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, where he is expected to apologize for the Cambridge Analytica data leak.

Follow The Hill's live coverage throughout the day Tuesday here:

  

Grassley says data privacy a top concern 

11:57 a.m. 

In an op-ed published in Fortune, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley(R-Iowa) lays out what he wants Zuckerberg to address: specifically, how Facebook is addressing growing consumer data privacy concerns.

"Consumers must have the transparency necessary to make informed decisions about whether to share their data and how that data can be used—be it in political campaigns or in tailored ads," Grassley writes.

"That kind of transparency has been woefully absent, which is why it's necessary to hear directly from Zuckerberg on what he sees as Facebook's most pressing problems and what his company is doing to fix them."

While Grassley does not outright call for regulations on technology companies meant to address data security, he voices the need for private tech firms and Congress to work in tandem to set "new rules of the road" for consumer data. At minimum, he writes, tech companies should work to provide more transparency around how consumer data is collected and used.

"The status quo no longer works," Grassley writes. "As innovation continues, the industry needs to work with Congress to determine if and how we need to strengthen privacy standards."

— Morgan Chalfant 

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica hit with class action lawsuit

11:30 a.m.

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica were hit with a class action lawsuit on Tuesday, just hours before Mark Zuckerberg is slated to testify before Congress.

The lawsuit was filed by seven people who were swept up in the trove of data that wound up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica, a company that did work for the Trump campaign ahead of the 2016 election. 

The class action was filed on behalf of all American and British users among the 87 million who were unwittingly swept up in the data leak.

— Harper Neidig 

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