Cambridge Analytica scandal: EU asks Facebook to 'cooperate fully'

The European Commission on Friday called on Facebook to "cooperate fully" with investigators into the scandal over the harvesting of personal data of millions of users which were then shared with the British political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook has admitted up to 2.7 million people in the European Union may have been caught in the scandal.

And last week the EU had said that its justice commissioner, Vera Jourova, would hold phone talks with Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg to discuss what the company is doing to address the breach, which may have affected 87 million people around the world.
Confirming that a telephone conversation took place earlier today, Jourova said that she "urged Facebook to fully cooperate with the European investigators, also on the highest level from the company." The discussion with Sandberg had been "constructive and open," Jourova said.