Documents seized as part of a British parliamentary investigation into Facebook reveal how Sheryl Sandberg sought legal protections in exchange for business investment
Facebook executives dangled the promise of building a massive data centre in Canada in exchange for guarantees that the federal government would not seek authority over data on non-Canadians, according to newly released documents detailing an extensive global lobbying effort by the social-media giant.
Facebook denied in a statement that it had put pressure on the Canadian government to offer legal protections in exchange for business investment. Ms. Levine goes on to complain that one of Mr. Paradis’s staff made up a “completely fictitious account” of a meeting with Facebook executives that “made us look like real jerks.”The meeting took place during the World Economic Forum in Davos that January.
Legal experts on cybersecurity say negotiations between companies and governments over who can access foreign data aren’t uncommon. It has become increasingly common for companies to be concerned about exposing themselves to the laws of foreign countries because they store data there, and to ask governments how they plan to enforce those laws.
Facebook lobbied the Canadian government ahead of its plans to build a fourth data centre in North America, federal lobbyist registry records show. Mr. O’Toole was registered as a lobbyist for Facebook from Dec. 1, 2011, to Feb. 29, 2012,"to arrange meetings to discuss potential investment or trade opportunities within Canada,” records show.
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