US Senate holds hearing with Google, Apple and Amazon on privacy

The US Senate is to hold a hearing on privacy and data protection at large companies in two weeks. To that end, the Senate invited representatives from six major tech companies to discuss their policies in those areas.

In addition to Google, Amazon and Apple, Twitter, Charter and AT&T will also discuss privacy, the US Senate writes. Charter is the second largest cable operator in the US, AT&T is the second largest mobile operator. It is not known why the Senate has not summoned the largest fixed and mobile provider; those are Comcast and Verizon Wireless.

In the hearing, the senators of the companies want to know how they deal with privacy and data protection and how they implement, among other things, the European GDPR legislation and new California regulations in the field of privacy.

Although all companies have sent a representative, in all cases it is not the top boss of the company. It happens more often that large companies appear in Washington. That happened last week, when Twitter and Facebook were allowed to publicly explain to Congress and the House of Representatives about influencing elections through their social networks.