Parliament’s Conference of Presidents (President and political group leaders) meets Facebook founder and CEO Mark ZUCKERBERG in the European Parliament in Brussels to discuss the use of personal data of millions of Facebook EU users. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enters into force on Friday 25 May.

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Statement by Mark ZUCKERBERG - EP Conference of Presidents with Mark ZUCKERBERG, founder and CEO of Facebook

SOUNDBITE (English), Mark ZUCKERBERG, Facebook Founder and CEO, <p>saying that Facebook helped people to stay connected during the terrorist attacks</p>

SOUNDBITE (English), Mark ZUCKERBERG, Facebook Founder and CEO, saying that Facebook has an increase in the investisment of the security area

SOUNDBITE (English), Mark ZUCKERBERG, Facebook Founder and CEO, saying that there are action taken to prevent what happen with Cambridge Analytica from happening again

SOUNDBITE (English), Mark ZUCKERBERG, Facebook Founder and CEO, saying that Facebook will give people new controls

SOUNDBITE (English), Mark ZUCKERBERG, Facebook Founder and CEO, saying that Facebook is working with governments and other technologies compagnies to share information about threats in real time

SOUNDBITE (English), Mark ZUCKERBERG, Facebook Founder and CEO, saying that a lot of fake news are economically motivated not politically motivated

SOUNDBITE (English), Mark ZUCKERBERG, Facebook Founder and CEO, saying that they are making advertising on Facebook much more transparent

SOUNDBITE (English), Mark ZUCKERBERG, Facebook Founder and CEO, saying that security is not a problem that you can even fully solve

SOUNDBITE (English), Mark ZUCKERBERG, Facebook Founder and CEO, saying that by the end of 2018, Facebook will employ 10 thousand people accross 12 European cities