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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg owes lawmakers answers to these questions


JP Mangalindan and Aarthi Swaminathan
Yahoo Finance

And while Zuckerberg’s testimony was widely viewed as a successful defense of the company he started in 2004 — Facebook’s stock was up 4.5% at market close the first day of hearings — there were many questions Zuckerberg left unanswered. Here’s a breakdown of the questions he could not address ...

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg owes lawmakers answers to these questions

Over the course of two days, senators on the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees and representatives from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, grilled Zuckerberg on a number of topics.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Wednesday’s hearing with the House Energy and Commerce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC.

 

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Cambridge Analytica: What The Media Won’t Tell You
What is worse then AI robots taking over the planet? Well for one thing, Facebook let Trump use AI to win the 2016 election


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... The fact of the matter is the data that Cambridge Analytica acquired from Facebook, much of which they obtained legally and as Facebook intended them to, was entirely useless without machine learning. Machine learning is one of the baby steps required for building artificial intelligence, it is a field of computer science that gives computer systems the ability to “learn” with data without being programmed by a person.

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Privacy
“CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG”: WHY THE PRIVACY CRISIS IS BIGGER THAN FACEBOOK
After all that we’ve given away of ourselves, will Facebook be a turning point for how we live online?


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MAYA KOSOFF

... Each new data breach—Yahoo, Equifax, Uber, and now Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica leak, which sold out as many as 87 million people—has set off alarm bells, yet we continue to readily engage with free platforms that make our lives easier. As technology evolves, however, our complacency is poised to leave us more exposed than ever before.

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“Cambridge Analytica Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg”: Why the Privacy Crisis Is Bigger Than Facebook

After all that we’ve given away of ourselves, will Facebook be a turning point for how we live online?

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It was one of the few moments that left Mark Zuckerberg speechless:

 

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Judge says class action suit against Facebook over facial recognition can go forward


Devin Coldewey
TechCrunch

... For now, he has found (you can read the order here) that "plaintiffs' claims are sufficiently cohesive to allow for a fair and efficient resolution on a class basis." The class itself will consist of "Facebook users located in Illinois for whom Facebook created and stored a face template after June 7, 2011."

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Judge says class action suit against Facebook over facial recognition can go forward

Whenever a company may be guilty of something, from petty neglect to grand

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Privacy
IS THE LAW FINALLY CATCHING UP TO MARK ZUCKERBERG?
A new class-action suit around user privacy could force Facebook to pay billions


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MAYA KOSOFF

... Facebook does this through a program called DeepFace, which uses data it has gathered about what you look like to match your face to your online profile. But Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (B.I.P.A.), which was signed into law in 2008, requires that companies notify people when their biometric data is being collected, and get their permission to do so.

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Is the Law Finally Catching Up to Mark Zuckerberg?

A new class-action suit around user privacy could force Facebook to pay billions.

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WHY MARK ZUCKERBERG IS COZYING UP TO CONSERVATIVES
Desperate times call for unlikely allies


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MAYA KOSOFF

... But Politico reports that under the threat of regulation, Facebook reached out to conservative groups to rally support, and to seek guidance in fending off the strict General Data Protection Regulation (G.D.P.R.) rules that are set to take effect late next month.

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FTC-mandated audit cleared Facebook's privacy policies in 2017

Mariella Moon
Engadget


... That's why it was a mystery how the fact that Cambridge Analytica harvested millions of users' information remained hidden until recently, turns out it was because the latest audit conducted in 2017 failed to detect that something was going on behind the scenes. The Electronic Privacy Information Center found a (heavily redacted) copy of the audit after submitting a Freedom of Information Act request. It reads: ...

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FTC-mandated audit cleared Facebook's privacy policies in 2017

When Facebook struck a deal with the Federal Trade Commission in 2011

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When Facebook struck a deal with the Federal Trade Commission in 2011, it was required to undergo an external audit every two years.

 

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Netflix CEO takes jab at Facebook over data privacy controversy

JP Mangalindan
Chief Tech Correspondent
Yahoo Finance


... “I’m very glad we built a business not to be ad-supported but to be based on subscription,” Hastings said in an indirect reference to Facebook’s core business. Hastings, who is a Facebook board member, further distanced Netflix from the data privacy concerns surrounding tech companies at the moment by suggesting his company is more of a media company — more in the same vein as say, The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) or CBS Corp. (CBS) — than a pure tech company.

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Netflix CEO takes jab at Facebook over data privacy controversy

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings addressed data privacy concerns raised over the last month regarding the tech industry.

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings briefly addressed the data privacy concerns raised over the last month regarding the tech industry.

 

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Professor Who Sold Facebook Data To Cambridge Analytica 'Sincerely Sorry'

Willa Frej
HuffPost


Aleksandr Kogan, the University of Cambridge psychology professor who harvested data from Facebook and sold it to Cambridge Analytica, apologized for a tactic that has spawned the wrath of internet users worldwide ...

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Professor Who Sold Facebook Data To Cambridge Analytica 'Sincerely Sorry'

Aleksandr Kogan, the University of Cambridge psychology professor who

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Russia
“A DIFFERENT KIND OF PROPAGANDA”: HAS AMERICA LOST THE INFORMATION WAR?
The most important public effort to counter Russian disinformation is understaffed, underfunded, and over-extended. Inside the battle Donald Trump doesn’t want to fight


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ABIGAIL TRACY

Secluded on the second floor of the State Department’s Harry S. Truman Building, just down the hall from the Counterterrorism Bureau, is the spy-proof chamber where the future of American warfare is being fought, one tweet at a time. No cell phones or electronic devices are allowed in or out ...

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