An umbrella group of the European Union's data protection authorities are launching a task force to investigate data harvesting on social media, CNBC reported Thursday.
Andrea Jelinek, who chairs the group Working Party 29 said that the coalition would "develop a long-term strategy on the issue."
"A multibillion dollar social media platform saying it is sorry simply is not enough. While Cambridge Analytica and Facebook are on top of everyone's mind, we aim to cast our net wider and think long-term," Jelinek said in a statement, CNBC reported.
U.S. and European authorities are probing Facebook over Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that improperly obtained information from 87 million users.
A new data privacy law will take effect May 25 in the European Union, and would give Europeans the right to know what data is stored about them, and it would provide the right to have that data deleted, CNBC reported.
Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg should make sure the new rules are done "in practice and not only on paper."
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