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The news that Facebook offered to partners until just recently a form of the friend-scraping capability it claimed to have discontinued back in 2014 has, within hours, brought rebuke and a call to action from the House of Representatives.

&Itdeeply concerning that Facebook continues to withhold critical details about the information it has and shares with others. This is just the latest example of Facebook only coming forward when forced to do so by a media outlet,& reads a statement from Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ).

Indeed, the question of whether and how a userfriends& data was being shared with third parties was brought up during Zuckerbergtestimony. It is, after all, likely that this is the vector by which millions of users& data was exfiltrated by agents both malicious and benign.

In the same line of thinking as &don&t talk to the cops,& the CEO was almost certainly instructed not to volunteer any disadvantageous information unless directly asked. Therefore, it should surprise no one that he failed to mention that there existed until quite recently a similar program allowing third parties to collect data on unsuspecting friends.

Ittelling of Facebookcurrent predicament that before they can adequately answer some questions, even more arise.

&Our Committee is also still waiting for a lot of answers from Facebook to questions Mr. Zuckerberg could not or would not answer at our hearing,& Pallone said.

He also called for the FTC to get involved: &The Federal Trade Commission must conduct a full review to determine if the consent decree was violated.& I&ve asked if the Representative will be appealing to the FTC directly, and/or whether any existing investigation (the FTC is quiet about these) will be affected.

Pallone is just one among hundreds of senators and representatives, but he is one of the crew responsible for the pending Congressional Review Act rollback of the FCCnew, weaker net neutrality rules. So itnot a surprise to see him weigh in quickly on another tech issue. Herehoping it helps keep Facebook accountable.

G Suite is about to get a slewof new integrations.

Hangouts Meet, for example, is Google designated video conferencing solution for businesses, but while iteasy enough to use, most businesses have already invested in similar solutions from the likes of Polycom and Cisco — or they have opted for MicrosoftSkype for Business as their go-to service. Soon, however, businesses will get more options as Google today announced that anyone on those systems will now be able to join a Hangouts Meet video call, as well. These integrations will go live in the coming weeks.

&Nothingmore frustrating than hosting a meeting and having trouble getting people to join because of issues with technology—it can interrupt workflows and slow down productivity,& Rany Ng, Googledirector of product management for G Suite, writes in todayannouncement. &We want to make it easier for businesses to use meeting solutions, like Hangouts Meet, without worrying about compatibility with existing equipment.&

Google built this project in partnership with Pexip, a company that specializes in making meeting platform interoperable. Pexipspecialty is Skype for Business, but for this product, the company is clearly branching out and adding support for Hangouts Meet, too.

In addition to allowing users from more hardware platforms to join Meet calls, Google also today announced that it is making it easier for third-party conferencing services to integrate their services deeper into Google Calendar. So if you are using Webex, for example, you&ll be able to joina Webex call right from Calendar with just a single click. Google saysArkadin, GoToMeeting, LogMeIn, Dialpad, RingCentral, Vidyo and Vonage are currently building similar calendar plugins for their users.

And if you need a room to take those calls, Google also today announced it is making it easier to view and book rooms that are stored in Exchange and Office 365 in Google Calendar. This integration will only go live in a few months, though.

Thatnot all of the integration news today, though. Google is also making it easier to import data from SAPenterprise resource planning tools into Google Sheets and analyze it there.

Apple is holding a keynote today at the San Jose Convention Center, and the company is expected to unveil new updates for iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS and maybe also some new hardware. At 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 6 PM in London, 7 PM in Paris), you&ll be able to watch the event as the company is streaming it live.

Apple is likely to talk about some new features for all its software platforms — WWDC is a developer conference after all. Rumor has it that Apple could also unveil some MacBook Pro update with new Intel processors.

If you have the most recent Apple TV, you can download the Apple Events app in the App Store. It lets you stream todayevent and rewatch old events. Users with old Apple TVs can simply turn on their devices. Apple is pushing out the &Apple Events& channel so that you can watch the event.

And if you don&t have an Apple TV, the company also lets you live-stream the event from the Apple Events section on its website. This video feed works in Safari and Microsoft Edge. And for the first time, Apple says that the video should also work in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

So to recap, herehow you can watch todayApple event:

• Safari on the Mac or iOS.
• Microsoft Edge on Windows 10.
• Maybe Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
• An Apple TV gen 4 with the Apple Events app in the App Store.
• An Apple TV gen 2 or 3, with the Apple Events channel that arrives automatically right before the event.

Of course, you also can read TechCrunchlive blog if you&re stuck at work and really need our entertaining commentary track to help you get through your day. We have a big team in the room this year.