Dana Milbank, The Washington Post; Facebook’s boy billionaire leaves the tough stuff to the grown-ups
"Where do the 87 million Facebook users who had their data scraped for Cambridge Analytica come from?
“We can follow up with your office.”
Does Facebook collect user data through cross-device tracking?
“I want to have my team follow up with you on that.”
Is Facebook a neutral forum or does it engage in First Amendment-protected speech?
“I would need to follow up with you on that.”
Zuckerberg was practically crying out for adult supervision.
Zuckerberg, of course, is no dummy. He was coached for the hearing by some of the best Washington hands money can buy. His professed ignorance, therefore, was most likely a calculation that he could avoid committing to much — and it wouldn’t come back to bite him.
He was probably right. Senators seemed as if they were less interested in regulating him than in gawking at him."
Showing posts with label Congressional questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congressional questions. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Senate fails its Zuckerberg test; CNN, April 11, 2018
Dylan Byers, CNN; Senate fails its Zuckerberg test
"Congress doesn't understand Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg emerged unscathed from Tuesday's Senate committee hearing, and he did so in large part because most of the senators who asked him questions had no clue how Facebook worked, what the solutions to its problems are, or even what they were trying to achieve by calling its CEO to testify, other than getting some good soundbites in.
What the first day of the Zuckerberg hearings made clear is that many American lawmakers are illiterate when it comes to 21st century technology."
"Congress doesn't understand Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg emerged unscathed from Tuesday's Senate committee hearing, and he did so in large part because most of the senators who asked him questions had no clue how Facebook worked, what the solutions to its problems are, or even what they were trying to achieve by calling its CEO to testify, other than getting some good soundbites in.
What the first day of the Zuckerberg hearings made clear is that many American lawmakers are illiterate when it comes to 21st century technology."
Congress tried to crack Zuckerberg – but Facebook still has all the power; The Guardian, April 10, 2018
Julia Carrie Wong, The Guardian; Congress tried to crack Zuckerberg – but Facebook still has all the power
"In the end, it was Zuckerberg’s attitude toward his own privacy that was most revealing of the difference between the control that Facebook offers users and actual privacy. Zuckerberg said many times that he and his all his family used Facebook – a talking point we were apparently meant to take as proof that Facebook is safe.
Yet under questioning from Senator Dick Durbin, Zuckerberg expressed discomfort with revealing certain personal information, such as which hotel he was staying at while in Washington DC.
I’m a relatively well-informed Facebook user. I probably pay more attention than most people to privacy settings, and I consistently turn off things like location tracking. And yet, my Facebook data includes dozens of cases where the company has logged my location based on my IP address.
Zuckerberg may not want us to know where he slept last night, but his company sure as hell knows where the rest of us are sleeping."
"In the end, it was Zuckerberg’s attitude toward his own privacy that was most revealing of the difference between the control that Facebook offers users and actual privacy. Zuckerberg said many times that he and his all his family used Facebook – a talking point we were apparently meant to take as proof that Facebook is safe.
Yet under questioning from Senator Dick Durbin, Zuckerberg expressed discomfort with revealing certain personal information, such as which hotel he was staying at while in Washington DC.
I’m a relatively well-informed Facebook user. I probably pay more attention than most people to privacy settings, and I consistently turn off things like location tracking. And yet, my Facebook data includes dozens of cases where the company has logged my location based on my IP address.
Zuckerberg may not want us to know where he slept last night, but his company sure as hell knows where the rest of us are sleeping."
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