Zuckerberg will instead send his Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer or Chief Product Officer Chris Cox to appear before parliament
The call for additional protection measure comes after the leak of personal and other data of some 50 million user
"We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can't we don't deserve it," the back page ads state
Taking a stern view of reports on the misuse of user data obtained from social media platform Facebook, the IT Ministry in a statement said that "breach of privacy cannot be tolerated"
The watchdog is taking the lead of the European probe into what went wrong with Cambridge Analytica
Prasad alleged that Congress party had links with Cambridge Analytica
Will the Congress now depend on data manipulation and theft to woo voters, Ravi Shankar Prasad said
Facebook is facing the heat after Cambridge Analytica, a British consulting company, was accused of harvesting data of up to 50 million Facebook users
The decision came after a television broadcast for Britain's Channel 4 News, in which Nix suggested unseemly practices to influence foreign elections on record
The company said in a statement that it was trying to determine the accuracy of allegations
The scrutiny presented a new threat to Facebook's reputation, which was already under attack over Russians' alleged use of Facebook tools to sway American voters before and after the 2016 US elections