“We can capture the whole scene with a 360-degree camera and people can feel they are right there in that scene”, he said, claiming that more than one million hours of 360-video had already been watched on Facebook.
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Speaking for the third straight year to an annual gathering of telecoms executives at the Mobile World Congress here, Zuckerberg sought to show his company could be a valuable, if truculent, ally to the wireless industry. “We believe in encryption; we think that that’s an important tool”, Zuckerberg said on stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. “Even since this message you get in India, we continue rolling out Free Basics in other countries”, he said about the ruling. The government is now recruiting victims of the shooting to join its case against Apple.
While many notable tech insiders seem to side with Apple in their opposition to a court order to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation defeat an iPhone’s password security, a recent poll finds that the American public leans slightly in favor of law enforcement on the question. Free Basics is a service that offers free internet access in partnership with telecommunications providers and, while Facebook hoped it would lead to more users joining the social network, there was a strong backlash in India.
He noted that above 4 billion people aren’t able to get internet access. CEO Tim Cook was quick to confirm that the company would fight it in an effort to protect user privacy.
While delivering his keynote, he stated, “Every country is different and each of them have different rules and regulation”.
Facebook chief Zuckerberg had come out in defence of the Free Basics (formerly Internet.org) programme time and again, saying it did not block or throttle other services and is not in conflict with net neutrality. I don’t think that requiring back doors to encryption is either going to be an effective thing to increase security or is really the right thing to do.
Mr. Zuckerberg said that Facebook will be working to roll out different programs in India.
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It’s one of Facebook’s answers to the problem of extending low-priced Internet access to parts of the world that don’t now receive it. It’s also something of an engineering marvel. He said that the company has now stringent polices when it comes to terrorism.
