Lawmakers Grill Facebook On Privacy Practices, Pitfalls Of Ad-Fueled Business
in a joint hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Zuckerberg said it was “clearly a mistake” that Facebook did not inform users sooner after their personal information was improperly scraped in 2013 by the political research firm … Read More
Zuckerberg’s boring testimony is a big win for Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg ran his apology scripts, trotted out his lists of policy fixes and generally dulled the Senate into submission. And that constitutes success for Facebook. Zuckerberg testified before the joint Senate judiciary and commerce committee today, capitalizing on the lack of knowledge of the … Read More
Mark Zuckerberg’s Privacy Shell Game
Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress Tuesday, and for five hours, senators who appeared to have halting grasp of the company's intricacies questioned the Facebook CEO on topics ranging from Russia to artificial intelligence. Zuckerberg for the most part gave considered answers to their … Read More
Congress tried to crack Zuckerberg – but Facebook still has all the power
If there was one moment that crystallized the absurdity of Tuesday's marathon Senate grilling of Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, it was the tweets. Two tweets, one each from Senators Richard Blumenthal and Kamala Harris, who urged their constituents to follow a link to their own Facebook … Read More
Zuckerberg tells Congress Facebook is not listening to you through your phone
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially shot down the conspiracy theory that the social network has some way of keeping tabs on its users by tapping into the mics on people's smartphones. During Zuckerberg's testimony before the Senate this afternoon, Senator Gary Peters had asked the CEO if the … Read More
Lawmakers seem confused about what Facebook does — and how to fix it
Is Facebook spying on the emails I send via WhatsApp? Those were just some of the questions senators asked of the Facebook founder and CEO during a hearing on Tuesday. It was the latest evidence that regulating Facebook will be complicated for Congress: Policymakers seem all over the place on … …
Read Mark Zuckerberg’s notes from today’s Facebook privacy Senate hearing
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress today in a marathon five-hour session about the ongoing Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal. In addition to discussing that situation, and how as many as 87 million users had their information misused by the data mining firm, the … Read More
Watch Sen. Graham grill Mark Zuckerberg on whether Facebook is a monopoly
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) asked Zuckerberg if Facebook has a monopoly on the kind of service it provides for its more than 2 billion users. “If I buy a Ford and it doesn't work well and I don't like it, I can buy a Chevy,” Graham said during Tuesday's hearing. “If …
Facebook and the Price of Tech Utopia
In the dawning days of the millennium, a great harvest was promised. A new class of young revolutionists, who saw the world as not yet living up to its grandeur and thus felt the duty to order it in their vision, vowed a season of abundance and grand prosperity. Among …
Zuckerberg shoots down conspiracy theory that Facebook taps your microphone
Suspicions that Facebook (and associated apps like Instagram) are secretly recording audio through phone microphones in order to better target ads have refused to die, despite official denials dating all the way back to 2016. In today's Senate hearing, Mark Zuckerberg addressed the urban legend yet … Read More