Google CEO Sundar Pichai will testify next week at a congressional hearing on the company's business practices, just three months after aides put up an empty chair to symbolize his refusal to appear.
Pichai's scheduled Dec. 5 appearance before the House Judiciary Committee comes after he traveled to Washington in late September to meet privately with lawmakers peeved by his refusal to appear.
After that private meeting, Pichai promised to come back to testify.
Among other things, lawmakers are expected to grill him on whether Google rigs its influential search engine to stifle conservative voices.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai (seen above in New York on November 1) will testify next week at a congressional hearing on the company's business practices, just three months after aides put up an empty chair to symbolize his refusal to appear
Pichai's scheduled Dec. 5 appearance before the House Judiciary Committee comes after he traveled to Washington in late September to meet privately with lawmakers peeved by his refusal to appear. The empty chair left for him is seen above on Capitol Hill on September 5
President Donald Trump asserts that Google's search engine favors media coverage that he believes distributes 'fake news.'
Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Giant tech firms like Google, Twitter, and Facebook are increasingly unpopular these days because of the companies' business models which rely on monetizing the personal data of its users to turn a hefty profit.
European consumer advocacy groups have accused Google of 'tricking' its users into letting the search engine track their location.
They say Google is tracking the location of its users and gets people to turn on their location settings with a combination of manipulative techniques.
Google uses location tracking on its Android operating system to improve search results and the location history is stored once a person activates the feature.
The complaints say complexities and a lack of transparency when setting up an Android device, hidden default settings, misleading and unbalanced information are all contributing to the issue.
The groups across the EU are claiming the firm is in breach of data protection rules brought in this year as part of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This past summer, it was reported that users of Google's email service, Gmail, allows third-party app developers to read the messages in users' inboxes, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey (right) and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg (left) answered questions from lawmakers during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on September 5
Last year, Google admitted that it scanned Gmail users' emails in order to decide which ads to target them with, though the company said that it halted the practice.
Twitter also collects information about its users that enable the company to track them whether they use the service on their phone or their laptops, according to CNET.com.
The web site also collects data from web sites that users visit which include content from Twitter - and that's even if you didn't log into the service.
Twitter also collects information about users' family, friends, acquaintances, business contacts, or anyone else who has your email address or phone number in their contacts and then upload that data into Twitter itself.
Facebook also engages in a similar practice.
Twitter does this in order to tailor the advertisements which it believes will appeal specifically to each individual users.
Facebook has also been in the headlines in recent months over its policies toward users' private data.
The social network came under fire again on Tuesday from lawmakers from several European countries who accused the firm of undermining democratic institutions and left out an empty chair for chief executive Mark Zuckerberg after he declined to be questioned by the British parliament.
Facebook is being investigated by lawmakers in Britain after consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which worked on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, obtained the personal data of 87 million Facebook users from a researcher, drawing attention to the use of data analytics in politics.
Giant tech firms like Google, Twitter, and Facebook are increasingly unpopular these days because of the companies' business models which rely on monetizing the personal data of its users to turn a hefty profit
Concerns over the social media giant’s practices, the role of political adverts and possible foreign interference in the 2016 Brexit vote and U.S. elections are among the topics being investigated by British and European regulators.
'We’ve never seen anything quite like Facebook, where, while we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions ... seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California,' Canadian lawmaker Charlie Angus said at a special international hearing at Britain’s parliament.
'So Mr Zuckerberg’s decision not to appear here at Westminster (Britain’s parliament) to me speaks volumes,' he said, later suggesting Facebook could be broken up to help address the issues.
Facebook says it complies with EU data protection laws, but Richard Allan, the company’s vice president of policy solutions who appeared in Zuckerberg’s stead, admitted it had made mistakes.
The 24 representatives from nine countries, who demanded answers from Facebook over its use and treatment of data, posed for a picture with an empty chair behind a desk with a nameplate for Zuckerberg on it.
Sandberg (left) and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been under fire for Facebook's policies on the spread of fake news and sharing of user data. A protester (above) wears a mask of Zuckerberg in London after he failed to appear for questioning before the UK parliament
Last week, Facebook hired former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to lead its global affairs and communications team, as the social network deals with a number of scandals related to privacy, fake news and election meddling.
Facebook said Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg were closely involved in the hiring process, and started talking to Clegg over the summer.
'Our company is on a critical journey. The challenges we face are serious and clear and now more than ever we need new perspectives to help us though this time of change,' Sandberg said on a Facebook post congratulating Clegg.
Facebook has faced a barrage of criticism from users and lawmakers after it said last year that Russian agents used its platform to spread disinformation before and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an accusation Moscow denies.
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