European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee Chair Claude Moraes has called for tougher regulation against social media platforms after the U.K. Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee released internal Facebook documents revealing the tech company gave some companies special access to user data, CNBC reports. Moraes said the European Commission needs to update competition rules to “audit the advertising industry on social media.” “Facebook is now on notice that we cannot continue to undermine the trust citizens place, not only in our online platforms, but our democracy itself,” Moraes said in an emailed statement. Meanwhile, Facebook will open a pop-up kiosk in Manhattan to educate users on its data-sharing practices and new privacy controls, while the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld the dismissal of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook over the collection of medical data.
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