Sundar Pichai faces US House grilling on Google Plus breach, China

Sundar Pichai's appearance before the Judiciary Committee comes after he angered members of a Senate panel in September by declining their invitation to testify about foreign governments

Google's CEO faces a grilling from US lawmakers on how the internet search giant handled an alarming data breach and whether it may bend to Chinese government censorship demands.

Sundar Pichai's appearance Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee comes after he angered members of a Senate panel in September by declining their invitation to testify about foreign governments' manipulation of online services to sway US elections.

Pichai's no-show at that hearing was marked by an empty chair for Google alongside the Facebook and Twitter executives. Pichai went to Washington later in September to mend fences, meeting with some two dozen Republicans and