Parliament has exerted rarely-used powers to seize private documents from Facebook which the social media giant had refused to make public for months.
The papers are believed to include e-mail exchanges between Mark Zuckerberg and senior Facebook executives and should shed light on the firm's actions ahead of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, when it was found to have shared millions of users' private data with third parties.
Parliament's culture committee chairman Damian Collins sent a serjeant-at-arms to a businessman's London hotel to demand access to the papers in an extraordinary move.
It came after Mark Zuckerberg declined to appear before MPs and answer their questions.
A member of staff from the office of serjeant-at-arms Kamal El-Hajji was dispatched to the hotel of the founder of US company Six4Three Ted Kramer, who is currently suing Facebook, to demand he co-operate.
Parliament has exerted its legal powers to get hold of private Facebook documents following Mark Zuckerberg's repeated refusal to answer MP's questions
When he did not the software firm founder was escorted to Parliament and told to hand in the documents or face jail.
The serjeant-at-arms, a post dating back to 1415, is a parliamentary official responsible for keeping order within the Commons.
The legal move comes less than a year after the company fell into turmoil for harvesting data from 87million US users without their knowledge.
It is more bad news for Zuckerberg, who last week refused to stand down after his company were found to be using lobbyists to smear critics by calling them anti-semitic and linking them to George Soros.
On Friday night lawyer for Six4Three Stuart Gross, confirmed to news group CNN that the British committee had obtained the sealed documents.
Last Monday, Damian Collins, chair of the culture, media and sport select committee, demanded US software company Six4Three hand in documents during a business trip in London
A member of staff from the office of Serjeant at Arms Kamal El-Hajji was dispatched to the hotel of Ted Kramer and demand he hand over the documents
Mr Collins told The Guardian: 'We are in uncharted territory.
'This is an unprecedented move but it’s an unprecedented situation. We’ve failed to get answers from and we believe the documents contain information of very high public interest.'
Tweets by Mr Collins show his ongoing battle with chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his company handling of data
The recent move by Parliament comes amid the ongoing scrutiny that Facebook has fallen under regarding private data.
Since it was exposed by the Observer in March the American company has lost more than $100bn in value.
The documents are believed to include the decisions that seniors made at the company in the years before the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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The papers are believed to include e-mail exchanges between Mark Zuckerberg and senior Facebook executives and should shed light on the...
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