Mel Stride, Treasury Committee Chair, has written to tech giants
Google, eBay, Facebook, and Amazon with a series of questions
relating to their policies and actions to combat economic crime,
prevent fraud, and protect consumers.
The correspondence follows an evidence hearing with the
four companies on 22nd September as part of the
current inquiry on Economic
Crime.
, Chair of the Treasury Committee, said:
“Online platforms are hugely important and increasingly
popular for the services they offer. But there has been a huge
rise in online crime and, as a Committee, we want to gain a
clearer understanding of what is needed to ensure tech platforms
are safe spaces for people to operate and not fall victim to
scams or fraud.
“Notwithstanding the efforts already being made by tech platforms
such as Google, eBay, Facebook and Amazon, I am keen that they
spell out in more detail what they are doing to protect their
users from online fraud and advertising scams and how they are
tackling issues such as the online promotion of tax avoidance
schemes.”
Letter from the Rt Hon Mel
Stride to Gaon Hart, Head of Public Policy, Customer Trust, UK
& Ireland at Amazon – 1 October 2021
Letter from the Rt Hon Mel
Stride to Amanda Storey, Director of Trust and Safety, Google – 1
October 2021
Letter from the Rt Hon Mel
Stride to Will Semple, Director, Global Information Security Team
at eBay – 1 October 2021
Letter from the Rt Hon Mel
Stride to Allison Lucas. Content Policy Director at Facebook – 1
October 2021
