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Congressman Costello from Pennsylvania asked if AI will be used to recognize the faces of "non-FB users". Combined with the shadow profiles question by Congres
by tareqak 9y ago
Congressman Costello from Pennsylvania asked if AI will be used to recognize the faces of "non-FB users".
Combined with the shadow profiles question by Congressman Lujan from New Mexico, some of these questions are getting closer to what people need to know and understand. Unfortunately, a lot of the rest of questioning seems like blind man's bluff / Marco Polo [0].
It'd be nice if Congress can be asked to host a debate between subject matter experts in the privacy domain (who are knowledgeable and can effectively communicate this knowledge and their concerns to lay people) and tech company C-level executives like Zuckerburg.
2:50 PM EDT: Congressman Duncan from North Carolina is going to give Zuckerburg a small copy of the US Constitution.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_man%27s_buff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_man%27s_buff
2:59 PM EDT - Edited to add "to lay people".
3:02 PM EDT - Added "Marco Polo". Thanks to caabalis for the reminder.
- koolba 9y ago> It'd be nice if Congress can be asked to host a debate between subject matter experts in the privacy domain (who are knowledgeable and can effectively communicate this knowledge and their concerns) and tech company C-level executives like Zuckerburg. That'd be amazing. Effectively champion warfare[1] but for civil liberties. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_warfare
- cabaalis 9y agoI'm very glad to have read that wikipedia page, and feel smarter. But I think you'd have reached a broader audience and not required a link if you had just called it Marco Polo.
- tareqak 9y agoOh yeah. I forgot that that was the same thing. Thanks! I'll add it.
- heurist 9y ago> 2:50 PM EDT: Congressman Duncan from North Carolina is going to give Zuckerburg a small copy of the US Constitution. Showboating... Not to defend Facebook and I admittedly have not watched any testimony or questioning, but I'm sure these politicians made no mention of FOSTA, SOPA, the PATRIOT Act, net neutrality, NSA domestic surveillance... Zuckerberg could have turned this all around on them.
- mygo 9y agothere's more than a handful of things that actually did happen that Zuckerberg could have "turned around" on them. And he didn't. Don't you wonder why?
- zie 9y agoNo, he is clearly in damage control mode, trying desperately to keep his monopoly without any major concessions. Will be interesting to see how that works out for him, probably fairly well I would guess.
- rhizome 9y agoReally? By my read Congress is begging him to do their jobs for them, asking the fox to design the henhouse.
- zie 9y agoIndeed, They want, Facebook to "fix itself" to some meaningful degree. Except Facebook has little desire for actual change, so like I said, I imagine very little in practice will change, just a lot more "yay we <3 privacy" spam from their PR department.
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- heurist 9y agoHe knows regulation is inevitable and upsetting politicians would put him in a worse lobbying position. I still wish he would have turned it around on them.
- saagarjha 9y ago> It'd be nice if Congress can be asked to host a debate between subject matter experts in the privacy domain (who are knowledgeable and can effectively communicate this knowledge and their concerns to lay people) and tech company C-level executives like Zuckerburg. I'd love to see him try to field some questions from the EFF or ACLU.
- noir_lord 9y ago> It'd be nice if Congress can be asked to host a debate between subject matter experts in the privacy domain (who are knowledgeable and can effectively communicate this knowledge and their concerns to lay people) and tech company C-level executives like Zuckerburg. Funny, I suggested the same thing on IRC, My suggestion was that they should have had the EFF write the questions ;). That would be pay per view.