April 5, 2018 / 9:14 PM / Updated 35 minutes ago

California pension system presses Facebook on data protection

BOSTON (Reuters) - The California State Teachers’ Retirement System will ask Facebook Inc about the controls the social media company has in place to protect user data, the system said in a statement on Thursday.

FILE PHOTO: A figurine is seen in front of the Facebook logo in this illustration taken, March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo

Reporting by Ross Kerber, editing by G Crosse