Congress has many questions for the CEO Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, who will testify on Capitol hill on Tuesday and Wednesday about the current data-the company’s privacy scandal and how it failed to protect against other abuses of the service.
Facebook is struggling to cope with the worst crisis of privacy in its history — the fact that a trump-affiliated mining company data may have used dishonest user data to try to influence the election results. Zuckerberg and his company are in full damage control, and announced a series of disparate technical changes intended to address issues of confidentiality.
But there are many CEO of Facebook has not yet explained. Here are five questions that could shed additional light on the privacy policies of Facebook and the degree to which he very much regrets playing fast and loose with user data — or just because its practices have drawn the center of attention.
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Question: You said you should have acted years ago to protect user privacy and prevent abuse. Only the failure of your leadership, or the business model of Facebook or other factors that create the obstacle to change? How can you ensure that Facebook does not make such mistakes in the future?
Context: Zuckerberg controls 59.7 percent of the voting shares in Facebook. He, as Chairman of the Board and CEO. He can’t be fired if he fired himself. “In the end, it’s my responsibility,” he told reporters in a conference call last week. He also admitted making “a huge mistake” by not taking a wide enough view of the responsibility of Facebook in the world.
Zuckerberg, however, apologizing for not doing better privacy for 11 years . In the current crisis, neither he nor chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg explained how Facebook developed such a huge blind spot, much less as he can to avoid repeating the mistakes of history.
Possible follow-up: Facebook does not need a chief privacy officer of the authority to act on behalf of users?
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Question: who owns user data on Facebook, or users? If it’s the latter, why would Facebook allow people to opt out of targeted advertising?
Context: Facebook collects data on their (your likes, what ads you click on, etc.) stores data that You own (photos, videos, messages); and correlation analysis of data from external data sources on the platform (lists of email addresses from marketers, and until recently, information from credit institutions).
Who owns what is a difficult question to answer, and Facebook was clearly not good at explaining it. While you can download all that the company knows about you, he will not allow you to take data of the opponent.
Sandberg said today Savannah Guthrie that gave the ad initiative, Facebook’s business model, currently it is impossible to avoid data analysis of the information on your public profile. (You can choose not to see the targeted ads , though.) Given that, Sandberg said, in fact, demand that Facebook will become paid goods that charges users.
Possible follow-up: not to other companies to allow some users to refuse advertising? Why Facebook to charge users who want an AD-free experience as hulu and YouTube to do it?
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Question: Facebook has made communicating with other people and sharing information dead simple. Why don’t You put the same effort to make the management of your personal life are equally easy to use?
Context: Facebook has updated its privacy terms, seven times over the last decade, each time aimed at making them easier to use.
The last update was on March 28. On 4 April, the company announced a new technical changes designed to close loopholes that allowed third parties for Board access to user data.
Facebook makes many pieces of information your default profile to block them, you must change these settings yourself.
Possible follow-up: this heritage recommend that the government had to intervene, clear and universal rules of confidentiality?
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Question: Facebook threatens legal action against newspaper the Guardian in the UK reporting about the scandal of the Cambridge analyst?
Context: John Mulholland, editor of the guardian us, wrote in March that Facebook had threatened to sue to stop the publication of his story that the scandal of the Cambridge analyst in mid-March. Neither the Trustee nor Facebook have additional comments.
Possible follow-up: you still stand for the actions of Facebook here?
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Question: you spoke with critics, including some former Facebook investors and colleagues, who argue that the company has become an exciting and aggressive forces in society?
Context: Sean Parker first President of Facebook, said that Facebook specializiruetsya on “exploiting” the psychology of a person and can be detrimental to the brains of our children. One of the first investors in Facebook, Roger Maknami compared Facebook to addictive substances such as nicotine and alcohol.
Brian Acton, co-founder of whatsapp (which was acquired by Facebook in 2014), recently recommended that people should delete their accounts Facebook . Chamath Palihapitiya, an early Vice-President of Facebook, said Facebook tools,” says tearing the social fabric”.
Possible follow-up: if not, why not?
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Technology to comply with AP writer Ryan Nakashima in https://twitter.com/rnakashi
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