Facebook Alleges EU Antitrust Probe Compromises Employee Privacy

Jul. 28, 2020

Facebookis asking EU courts to put a limit on what information the region’s antitrust regulator can and cannot ask for while investigating the company and its business practices. Describing the EU Competition Commission’s requests as ‘exceptionally broad’, Facebook’s associate general counsel for competition, Tim Lamb, argued that the information the investigators are asking for will compromise the privacy of its employees.

In a statement to AFP, Lamb said:“The exceptionally broad nature of the commission’s requests means we would be required to turn over predominantly irrelevant documents that have nothing to do with the commission’s investigations”. According to him, the documents include“highly sensitive personal information such as employees’ medical information”. It also includes“personal financial documents, and private information about family members of employees”, he said.

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