Lauren, mark Zuckerberg is still on this week when Facebook founder and CEO will appear at the hearings in the Senate and the House of representatives to discuss the practices of his company.
This is an opportunity for legislators to show that they are taking a tough stance on Facebook — and the chance for Zuckerberg to face some important questions about what his business and how he plans to correct some mistakes made in the past.
The scandal in Cambridge the analyst has generated a lot of questions about the methods of Facebook in terms of data and security — and, of course, talking about the role the platform for spreading Russian disinformation about the U.S. policy in the future. On Tuesday in the Senate and Wednesday in the house, members will have the opportunity to ask Zuckerberg about all these questions and more, and they are willing to accept it.
“We have a problem,” said Senator John Kennedy (R-La), who sits in the Senate judiciary Committee, who will hold a joint meeting with the Senate Committee on Commerce, to which Zuckerberg will testify, on face the nation on Sunday. “Our promised digital utopia of a minefield in it. Mr. Zuckerberg has not exhausted itself in the upcoming”.
Expected show
Given the public attention and concern on Facebook, lawmakers from both parties are likely to take the opportunity to demonstrate their outrage.
“Lawmakers have put their indignation on display for TV cameras during what is likely to be very hard to burn Zuckerberg,” mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst Bankrate.com told me. “Without a doubt, some are sincere. But it should also be noted that Congress was ineffective and noticeably absent in the police against and respond to data breaches, including natural disasters Equifax”.
For Cambridge, Analytics-fueled debates about privacy, questions about Russian interference in the elections of 2016, and its consistent effort to intervene in US politics remain. Facebook last week said it will require will enhance the efforts of political and issue advertising on its platform to be checked, and transparency. What else is he doing on the political front, the intervention, and what measures it has in place to ensure that it works?
“This will be one of the most contentious hearings, we saw the leaders of the Bank went up during the financial crisis,” said Isaac Boltansky, an analyst with the Washington, D.C., research firm compass point.
There are three groups of legislators to follow in the Senate, said he uses:
- The big names that could grab headlines, such as Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and dick Durbin (d-Il)
- Former state attorneys General, such as sense. Richard Blumenthal (d-CT) and Kamala Harris (d-ka)
- By 2020, the presidential candidates, including Sens. Cory Booker (d-CA) and Harris
In the house, figures to keep an eye on the energy Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-l) And ranking member Frank Pallone, Jr., (Democrat, new Jersey), and majority whip Steve Scalise (R-La).
“We want [Zuckerberg] Facebook failed to protect users, their data, and then, of course the account of their unwillingness to take any meaningful action for many years,” Pallone said in a telephone interview.
In prepared testimony, house Committee, published on the eve of the court session, Zuckerberg will tell MPs that he regretted the incident. “We did not take a sufficiently broad view of our responsibility, and it was a big mistake,” he intends to say.
Facebook has announced a number of measures it plans to take by yourself to resolve questions about his actions in recent weeks and days, including the adoption of new measures to prevent the election of the intervention and outlining its conditions and data policies more clearly. Zuckerberg also took part in the hour of questions and answers with journalists last week. All this probably trying to avoid the fireworks in Congress, if at all possible. “I assume that his people are not going to break the news,” Rebecca MacKinnon, an Internet freedom advocate and the Director of the ranking digital rights, said. “They violated all the latest news of the week, so he won’t have a break in the hearings.”
I spoke with various experts, observers, and interested parties in recent days to find out what issues the Congress can and should ask.
1) That the “attackers” user data?
In a Facebook post last week, announcing new plans to restrict access to data, “attackers” took advantage of his features to clear the profile data. He did not say who these actors are.
2) there are more shoes to drop?
Just last week, Facebook admitted that the information 87 million people can be available a Cambridge Analytics, more Russians suspended the accounts and said the data from most of its 2 billion users vulnerable. “How Facebook be sure and more user data for other purposes, and as the company may determine other third parties that may be inadequately or improperly acquired user data?”, wrote Michel de Filin, Director of privacy and data in the center for democracy and technology, in a recent blog.
3) If you are open to Regulation, why oppose the government tried to regulate?
Zuckerberg said that he is open to regulated by Facebook, but Facebook has repeatedly acted against state privacy laws – said Joe Jerome, counselor Center for strategic and technology. That includes existing laws, such as the Illinois biometric information privacy that covers sensitive data, face recognition, and the California privacy initiative on the ballot in November. “I hope that this hearing will clarify the company’s approach to privacy laws,” said Jerome.
4) are you the right person to lead Facebook?
Zuckerberg said that he still believes that he is the right person to lead Facebook, and due to the installation of Facebook shareholders, in which Zuckerberg controls the majority of voting shares of the company, he can’t be fired if he fired himself.
“The management of Facebook also faces questions, including whether Zuckerberg should continue to serve as CEO and Chairman of the building and whether it takes too much energy, as a shareholder,” Hamrick, Bankrate.com said. “The market to some extent, help determine the outcome of these issues, especially if the action continues to come under pressure.”
5) is there a business model Facebook needs to change?
Facebook defended its business model, which, in fact, the position of its users as the product: it fundamentally depends on providing advertisers with user data to help them influence potential consumers. There is a desire to try and change the business model, which does not depend on the extraction and use of user data? Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview today that the refusal of a tool to keep Facebook using profile data for advertisement is paid goods.
6) who owns the data users of Facebook already?
There are many questions about who, ultimately, owns the data on the Facebook platform, and what users should expect and not being done with their information. Yes, people put their information on the platform of Facebook voluntarily, but they have not signed, for example, to have that b Cambridge analyst.
Europe is going to pass a law that, among other things, allows the portability of data means that users can take their data from one platform to another — and allows users the information to remove. Facebook will be open for users in the United States the same rights?
It is also worth noting that customizing the default Facebook facilitates the sharing of data inside and outside the platform.
7) what do you think about the agreement with the FTC?
The Federal Trade Commission in March confirmed that it is investigating Facebook for possible misuse of personal information that Facebook already confirmed as many as 87 million of its users Cambridge analyst. On the question whether Facebook violated a 2011 agreement with the ftc on charges that it deceived consumers about their privacy.
Electronic Information center the private life (epopee) is encouraging this week Congress you for what Zuckerberg is and can do, and instead focus on the disposal of the FTC, said epic President Marc Rotenberg via email. He believes that the Cambridge fiasco Analytics could have been prevented if the FTC order execution. “I’m sure it will happen,” he said.
“Facebook is not considered the consent decree the FTC in 2011 to improve the privacy policies of Facebook?,” wrote de mooy CDT blog post.
8) Europe is going to make a big step in regulating Facebook. Why not apply these standards in the United States?
Europe on may 25, will enact General rules on data protection, or GDPR, the new code is designed to ensure that users know and understand the companies and collecting data about them and agreed to exchange it. Zuckerberg said he intends to apply the principles set forth in the law for users around the world, but also acknowledged it will not be in the same format everywhere.
“In what format he sees for the United States?” said Mike litt, consumer campaigns Director of the public interest research group, USA, e-mail. “Will not support a privacy law which guarantees many of these protections for American consumers? He supports the bill privacy rights that requires consent from consumers before their information can be used?”
9) How are we supposed to believe that this time is different?
Facebook is constantly waiting to solve the problems until the damage was done or he got caught. He suspended the Cambridge Analytics from your platform was published on the eve of news that happened when it was clear that they could not keep the incident secret.
Lawmakers likely to press Zuckerberg on what he plans to do to be more active in assessing harm, reduce risk and solve problems before it’s too late. “Isn’t it time for Facebook to stop this pattern is to ask first and break things and then fix it later?” Said McKinnon.
“If Facebook can’t fix their problems in his personal life, how can Americans trust them to the care of their confidential information?” said Senator bill Nelson (d-FL) in a statement after a meeting with Zuckerberg on Monday at the Capitol.
Sourse: vox.com
