Sentences with phrase «parliamentary committees investigating»

Damian Collins, the chair of the British parliamentary committee investigating the data breach, said that the ICO and Electoral Commission must have unfettered access to Cambridge Analytica.
The Chair of parliamentary committee investigating «fake news», the conservative MP Damian Collins, accused both Cambridge Analytica and Facebook of misleading his committee's investigation in a statement early Sunday morning indicating that both companies would be called in for more questioning.
Andrew Tyrie, chair of the British parliamentary committee investigating the LIBOR, asked Paul Tucker, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, whether he was confident that it was now working normally.
Rupert Murdoch, his son James and Rebekah Brooks are to appear before a parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.
Rupert Murdoch and his son James and Rebekah Brooks are to appear before a parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.
The Trade Minister gave the list when he appeared before the five - member Parliamentary committee investigating the matter.
In addition, there's a nimble turn from Rory Kinnear as M's assistant Tanner, Albert Finney as Kincade, the ancient retainer to the Bond family, and Helen McCrory as the haughty chairperson of a Parliamentary committee investigating the incompetence of M and the British security services.
This primary source activity pack gives students multiple ways to analyze the testimony of textile mill - worker William Cooper before a Parliamentary committee investigating child labor during the early Industrial Revolution in Britain.
The correct answer is no, as I explained before the Canadian Parliamentary Committee investigating the Ozone question.
Also, of interest is a statement to the parliamentary committee investigating the case made by the former Information Commissioner (http://bit.ly/afNr0K) and his oral testimony (http://bit.ly/abpi7Y).
In Britain, the head of the parliamentary committee investigating fake news accused Cambridge Analytica and Facebook of misleading MPs after revelations in the Observer that more than 50m Facebook profiles were harvested and used to build a system that may have influenced voters in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The reports quickly put Mr. Nix in the cross hairs of a parliamentary committee investigating fake news and Russian interference in Britain's referendum to exit the European Union.
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg snubbed a summons from a British Parliamentary committee investigating the rise of fake news, offering to send senior Facebook executives instead.

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So much for «We are accountable `; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is being used, and — as recent revelations suggest misused — for political ad targeting.
So much for «We are accountable `; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is bein
A parliamentary committee will be set up to investigate each of the 10, in a process expected to last for at least one month.
The Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) has taken various forms of evidence and undertaking during the whole affair, and continues to investigate various aspects as part of its normal parliamentary undertakings.
His comments were in relation to the formation of a parliamentary committee which investigated claims made by the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak that the Millennium Excellence Foundation charged expatriates...
That this Honourable House constitute a special Parliamentary Committee to investigate the following:
Mr. Bagbin said the minority wants the House to constitute a special Parliamentary Committee to investigate whether President John Dramani Mahama received a Ford Expedition Vehicle from a Burkinabe Contractor.
One might expect parliamentarians to be queuing up to protest that this looks very much like an attack on freedom of speech within Parliament, and an infringement of Parliamentary privilege, and therefore these events should be investigated by a Parliamentary committee, preferably a joint committee of both Houses, and both Jacqui Smith and Lord Ahmed should be summoned as witnesses to explain themselves.
Under this process, an independent parliamentary commissioner investigates complaints against an MP and submits a report to the committee, including proposed penalties.
Lord Laird, the Ulster Unionist peer who was investigated by the BBC's Panorama programme, should face a four - month suspension after he was found to have offered to help undercover reporters set up an all - party parliamentary group in return for payment, the Lords committee for privileges and conduct said.
«In view of the happenings preceding, during and after the parliamentary primary, we are humbly appealing to the National Executive Committee of the NDC to have the elections held at Ningo - Prampram constituency investigated thoroughly and if the allegations against Sam George are proven, they should go ahead and annul the results of the election and punish all deserving parties, especially Samuel George, for bringing the name of the party into disrepute,» Okoe Mensah charged.
Meanwhile, the MP who chairs the parliamentary Labour party's backbench health committee has asked Labour's general secretary to urgently investigate whether McDonnell has broken party rules.
Warsi has written to Labour MP Yvette Cooper, the chair of the parliamentary home affairs committee, to ask her to investigate hate speech.
The allegation, which was considered a grave infringement of parliamentary privilege, was investigated by the Committee of Privileges, who decided there was no evidence to support them.
The motion, tabled by the Scottish National party's foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond, was backed by MPs from six other parties, and called for parliamentary committees to investigate and take appropriate action against the former prime minister.
In a motion dated August 3, 2016, the Minority requested that Parliament recalled from recess to constitute a special Parliamentary Committee to investigate the following:
In response, the parliamentary education committee investigated and published a series of recommendations.
Rather than the Muir Russell panel «thoroughly investigating» an issue highlighted by the Parliamentary Committee, there is no record of Jones» answering a single question about the request to «delete all emails» or the equally damning instruction that Briffa «should say» (untruthfully) that there had been no such correspondence between him and Wahl.
The incident had also drawn the attention of the Parliamentary Committee, who stated that the importance of a «conclusive resolution» of the resolution meant that the incident should be «thoroughly investigated» regardless of the time bar:
Might also make useful submission to the Parliamentary Select Committee, to demonstrate how the two UEA investigations weren't what Parliament was told they would be: Oxborough's review of the science being based on papers selected by the people being investigated, and Muir Russell being factually incorrect (as shown above) and also being an absentee Chairman.
Sara George and Alan Ward at Stephenson Harwood in London consider the powers of UK parliamentary select committees to investigate, and the potential difficulties that being required to answer questions before a select committee may pose, for both the subjects of investigations and those investigating.
There has been a dramatic increase in the areas that Parliamentary Select Committees investigate, ranging from tax for digitalised businesses, packaging waste, pension deficits (e.g. Carillion), working conditions (e.g. Sports Direct) and bankers bonuses.
So much for «We are accountable `; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is bein
So much for «We are accountable `; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is being used, and — as recent revelations suggest misused — for political ad targeting.
Last week, a U.K. parliamentary media committee summoned CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify about how Facebook uses data, while U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham is investigating how Cambridge Analytica got the data.
Some seventy years after the war, the Final Report [FR](see the official Greek version here) of a Parliamentary Committee with a mandate to investigate — inter alia — the legal basis and substance of the said ICCs came to pass.
Giving evidence today, to a UK parliamentary select committee that's investigating the use of disinformation in political campaigning, Wylie said: «The 50 million number is what the media has felt safest to report — because of the documentation that they can rely on — but my recollection is that it was substantially higher than that.
The head of Cambridge Analytica, Alexander Nix, recently appeared before a British parliamentary committee which is investigating fake news and denied claims that his company worked for Leave.EU, a pro-Brexit group.
The commissioner was giving her thoughts on how social media platforms should be regulated in an age of dis (and mis) information during an evidence session in front of a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating fake news and the changing role of digital advertising.
After declining a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is being used this morning, it appears that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may end up finally going before Congress to testify amid a wave of privacy debacles, according to a report by CNN.
tech.slashdot.org - PolygamousRanchKid shares a report from TechCrunch: So much for «We are accountable»; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating how social media data is being used, and — as recent revelations suggest misused — for po...
Similar calls for official investigation came from several other U.S. lawmakers, the European Union's justice commissioner and a British lawmaker, Damian Collins, head of a parliamentary committee that has been investigating Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
A U.K. parliamentary media committee is investigating how Facebook uses data, and has summoned CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify.
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