Facebook agrees to provide documents in California data privacy probe

San Francisco, USA – American tech giant Facebook on Thursday agreed to hand over further documents to Californian state authorities in its data privacy investigation.
The move by the Menlo Park company comes after the state’s attorney general, Democrat Xavier Becerra, earlier this month publicly accused Facebook of not cooperating with investigation carried out by his department.
Becerra had termed the responses sent by the company as “inadequate” and his office asked a court to take action to compel Facebook to respond to subpoenas.
On Thursday Facebook agreed to provide at least some of the requested documents next week.
The investigation was opened in June 2018, just a few months after the scandal involving British consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which used an app to collect the personal data of millions of Facebook users without their consent and for political ends. EFE-EPA
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