Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook will meet the Euro-MP and president Emmanuel Macron the next week

The owner of Facebook will be explained on the use of the personal data of his users.

Mark Zuckerberg, agreed to go to Brussels and in the Elysium to express itself on the use of the personal data of his million users, the president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani announced Wednesday.

Emmanuel Macron will place the emphasis against the giants of the Web on the fake news, the diversion of the personal information or tax avoidance. The Head of State benefits from the opening of the VivaTech living room (which will gather the gratin of the technological companies from May 24th to May 26th in Paris) and of the imminence of the coming into effect of the European regulation on the personal data data protection to invite to the Elysium about fifty managers of large companies of digital for a top entitled “Tech for Good”.

Mr. Zuckerberg “will be in Brussels as soon as possible, I hope as of the next week” to meet there the presidents of the various groups at the Parliament, specified the Italian leader. Contacted by AFP, Facebook specified that this meeting would be the occasion “to dialogue, to listen to their points of view and to show the measures” taken by the giant of Internet “for better protecting the private life from people”.

At the time of his arrival, the American entrepreneur will meet the presidents of the various political groups of the hemicycle, as well as the president and the rapporteur of the commission of Civil liberties (LIBE).

The President of the Republic will receive on May 23rd the chairman of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Virginia Rometty (IBM), Bill McDermott (DG from SAP), Satya Nadella (DG from Microsoft), Young K. Sohn (president of Samsung), Dara Khosrowshahi (chairman of Uber), Brian Krzanich (chairman from Intel), Alexander Karp (chairman of Palantir) as well as intellectuals and public or philanthropic actors of which John Kerry for the foundation Carnegie and Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia).

French side, will be present the leaders of the Post office, the SNCF, the RATP, Sanofi, BNP, Thalès. Several African actors are also invited to mark the importance of the technological development of the continent, of which the president of Rwanda Paul Kagamé, which will open the VivaTech living room with Emmanuel Macron Thursday, May 24 in the morning.

In this report, Facebook announces that 3.4 million violent images was removed or matched warnings in the first quarter 2018, almost triple of the previous quarters. The company announces also the suppression of 21 million images of nudity or sexual activity, in the first quarter, at the end of 2017.

The social network reveals also the figures concerning terrorist propaganda. At the end of April, 1.9 million contents were removed in the first quarter, that is to say 73% of more than in the 4th quarter 2017, thanks to technological improvements. 99.5% of the removed contents were it before any description.

The image of Facebook was seriously tarnished by the bursting mid-March of the resounding scandal Cambridge Analytica, of the name of this British firm related to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump in 2016 in the United States, which laid hands on the data of tens of million of users of Facebook at their knowledge.

Vis–a–vis actors as powerful as Facebook, which have an impact on the daily life of the French, or who have like Uber a behavior considered to be predatory on their sector, “the president seeks to initiate a dialogue, to have discussions sometimes frank, direct, to speak about the regulation or international governance. The companies feel that in the current atmosphere, they do not have other choices to have a discussion with the government”, explain the advisors.

Monika Bickert, the director of the policy of the contents on Facebook, fact of the fight against propaganda Jihadist, a priority. The company asserts its capacity with being able to remove videos of terrorist propaganda, before even as they are not announced by the users.

This mini–top, similar to Choose France organized by the Elysium in Versailles the day before Davos, will take place two days only before the coming into effect of the European regulation on the protection of given (RGPD) which obliges groups Internet to arrange their conditions of use for Europeans, and often de facto for the whole world.

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