The Socialist Workers’ Party in Congress has registered a request for the presence of the founder and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg; From the company’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Javier Olivan; and Meta Public Affairs Director for Spain and Portugal, … Jose Luis ZimmermanDue to the “potential serious violation of the privacy of millions of users.”
The Socialist Workers’ Party announced this on Thursday in a statement, in which it explained that in addition, the Socialists requested the appearance of experts on this matter before the Committee on Economy, Trade and Digital Transformation of the House of Representatives.
In this sense, the Socialist Workers’ Party explained that these requests to appear “derive from information revealed by several European centers about… A potential violation of the privacy of millions of users in Spain and Europe“.
During his participation in the fourth Metafutoro Forum organized by Atresmedia, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the opening of an investigation “to clarify what happened, ensure responsibilities and protect the basic rights that may have been violated.” “The government is clear: in Spain, the law is above any algorithm or big technology. Whoever violates our rights will pay the consequences.”
In this context, PSOE highlighted that research conducted by the networks IMDEA (Spain), the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and Radboud University (Netherlands) revealed that “META used a hidden mechanism for about a year To track web activity of Android device users through Facebook and Instagram apps.”
“This system allows the company to record which pages are visited, even when users use incognito mode or a VPN, and link that information to their profiles on meta platforms: silent spying without any kind of explicit consent,” the socialists noted.
If confirmed, the PSOE warned, “this practice would constitute a breach of multiple European regulations” such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the e-Privacy Directive, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA). “META is already facing class action lawsuits in Germany, the United States and Canada over similar events,” he concluded.