Staff Reporter :
A two-member delegation of Facebook authority will hold meeting with the high officials of the government at Home Ministry in city today (Sunday).
The two Facebook high officials arrived in Dhaka on Saturday to discuss a proposal about signing a deal with the government to combat cyber crimes in the country.
The government, on November 30, wrote a letter to the Facebook authority showing interest to sign a deal with the social networking site in order to attain information about its users.
The meeting will decision ways to resolve the problem, sources said. BSS adds: Tarana said she earlier wrote to Facebook citing of examples how the network was misused forcing several women in the country to commit suicides and how the miscreants uploaded objectionable contents often exposing girls of Bangladesh to extreme miseries.
“We will explain to them (Facebook) that there are issues relating to women that could be acceptable to western countries but cause debacle in our country for social and cultural reasons,” she added.
The Facebook officials will meet with home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, state minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim and state minister for ICT Junaid Ahmed Palak today (Sunday) morning at the secretariat. Officials concerned will also be present there.
On November 30, Tarana Halim sent an email to the authority pointing out the adverse effects of Facebook’s misuse in Bangladesh. Immediately after a day, the facebook replied the mail and showed interested for meeting.
In the email, the state minister wrote that Facebook should consider “protecting its goodwill in Bangladesh, where it has around 30 million users.”
Tarana Halim said after assuming the office of the state minister she had been communicating with the Facebook authority to find out a way about stopping flow of disrespectful contents involving women, fake ID, threat and other misuses in the social networking site.
The state minister said the government needs to sensitise them (Facebook) about Bangladesh’s social context.
