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Testifying before Congress this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed a great faith in the ability of artificial intelligence to moderate hate speech. His optimism is unwarranted.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. featuring testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee are holding a joint hearing Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. on “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data.”
On Monday morning, the House Energy and Commerce Committee published the following prepared statement by Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and chief executive of Facebook, in advance of his testimony before that committee on Wednesday:
The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, first proposed in 2012, established rights to protect online users
For the first time in twenty years, FOSTA carves out a statutory exception in technology companies’ immunity for third-party content under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Governments and businesses are using facial recognition software more and more often. The costs and benefits extend beyond what’s in plain sight.
Facebook’s failure to protect user data is a privacy failure, not a security one—and there’s no suggestion yet that the company is willing to fix the problem.
Not long ago, it was hard to find anyone who thought regulating Silicon Valley was a good idea. But times have changed.
Theft of private individuals’ information tends to be viewed as serious only when people suffer direct harm. But such theft can have much larger consequences.