But it wasn’t just Mark Zuckerberg that people were paying attention to.
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“The only way we’re going to close this trust gap is through legislation that creates and empowers a sufficiently resourced expert oversight agency, with rulemaking authority to protect the digital privacy and ensure that companies protect our users’ data”.
Almost 42percent said they’d spend between $1 and $5 a month for Facebook.
When Mark said “no”, he replied: “I think that may be what this is all about”.
Zuckerberg agreed: “If there’s an imminent threat of harm, we’re going to take a conservative position on that and make sure that we flag that and understand that more broadly”.
Regarding the Cambridge Analytica issue, Zuckerberg said it will take “many months” to complete an audit of other apps that may also have improperly gathered or shared data. “We need to know when somebody is trying to repeatedly access our services”, he said.
“You’re tracking everyone. You are collecting data on just about everybody”, Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida told Zuckerberg. It’s a platform, and it competes not only with other platforms for user attention to then sell that attention to advertisers, but with anything and everything that can occupy human attention. And the more data that Facebook collects allows you to better target ads to users or classes of users.
A new Gallup poll, which was conducted in the lead-up to Zuckerberg’s trip to Capitol Hill and released Wednesday, found that 43 percent of users are “very concerned”-a 13-point jump from the last survey in 2011-and 31 percent are “somewhat concerned” about privacy on the platform”. On Tuesday, 84-year old Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who had been a senator for almost eight years when Zuckerberg was born, asked how Facebook’s business model works given that it is free.
He said that by the end of the year Facebook would have 20,000 people working on security and content review and would also step up use of artificial intelligence to weed out fake accounts and inappropriate content.
Senators and representatives have already proposed new laws, including the Consent Act, introduced by Sen. “And do you have specific contracts with these companies that will provide data that is being acquired verbally, through our phones or now through things like Alexa or other products?” So the European Union legislation called the General Data Protection Regulation and so that’s a window into how the regulation in this area could be more effective and beholden to other countries around the world then to consider their citizens’ rights. A founding member of right-wing outlet Breitbart News, Bannon is a former board member of Cambridge Analytica and brought in wealthy businessman Robert Mercer as a financial backer.
Everyone around the world deserves good privacy controls, he said. “They are doing nothing and overreacting”.
Republican congressman Fred Upton cited an example of a Michigan Republican whose campaign page was removed from Facebook.
Long asked if it was still online. Zuckerberg went on to note a paid version of the social network had been considered, but the company plans on sticking with the ad-based model for now. Greg Walden of OR, who led the hearing as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, opened the discussion Wednesday by noting that President Obama’s campaign also employed developers that could have accessed Facebook data.
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“But it’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used as harm as well”.
