Facebook Doesn’t Believe Recent Scandals Will Hurt Its Business
Facebook's recent data privacy issues and the recent Cambridge Anlaytica scandal don't seem like they will impact the company's business. That's according to Facebook vice president of global marketing solutions Carolyn Everson who said at The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council event this week that … Read More
Can AI Really Solve Facebook’s Problems?
Congress interrogated Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for two days this week over his company's privacy policies—and its apparent inability to prevent the misuse of its social media platform by some promoting hatred, terrorism or political propaganda. Throughout Zuckerberg's apologies … Read More
Facebook Reportedly Wants to Use AI to Predict Your ‘Future Behavior’—So Advertisers Can …
Among the unanswered questions at Mark Zuckerberg's congressional hearings this week, the CEO was a bit stumped when asked if he would be willing to change Facebook's business model in order to protect users' privacy. Facebook's data collection has received a lot of attention from a security … Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Comp Jumps 54% in 2017, to $8.9 Million, on Higher Personal …
Mark Zuckerberg, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Facebook, had a compensation package of $8.9 million in 2017, up 54% from the year prior — which was almost entirely for personal security and use of a private jet, the company said Friday. His salary for 2017 was just a token $1, …
Facebook Doesn’t Need To Listen Through Your Microphone To Serve You Creepy Ads
In ten total hours of testimony in front of the Senate and the House this week, Mark Zuckerberg was able to produce only one seemingly straightforward, privacy-protective answer. When Sen. Gary Peters asked Zuckerberg if Facebook listens to users through their cell phone microphones in order to … Read More
Facebook spent close to $9 million last year on security and private jets for Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg only made a salary of $1 in 2017, but his company spent close to $9 million for his personal security and use of private jets. According to a proxy statement released on Friday, Zuckerberg's "other compensation" jumped 53 percent last year from 2016 to $8.9 million. …
Within Facebook, a Sense of Relief Over the Zuckerberg Hearings
Zuckerberg responded that Facebook deletes their data. But Cornyn continued, “How about third parties that you have contracted with to use some of that underlying information, perhaps to target advertising for themselves?” To Zuckerberg, this must have been exasperating. As he has said over and … Read More
A normal person’s guide to this week’s Facebook Congressional testimony
Over the past two days, Facebook CEO and controversial-haircut owner Mark Zuckerberg spent roughly 11 hours testifying in front of Congressional committees, answering questions from nearly 100 officials. The hearing covered everything from the Cambridge Analytica data debacle and Russian … Read More
The Facebook Liberation Army Link List
… in your browser. The Institute of Network Cultures' Facebook Liberation Army Link List (compiled by Geert Lovink & Patricia de Vries) is a thoroughly useful document: … https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/03/28/people-really-deleting-their-facebook-accounts-its-complicated/464109002/ Read More
How Facebook can have your data even if you’re not on Facebook
One of the creepiest things brought to light during Mark Zuckerberg's testimony on Capitol Hill this week was how Facebook can amass data to construct what are being referred to as “shadow profiles” of you, even if you've never opted in or joined the world's largest social network. Facebook's CEO …