He said 'Brexit'. But only to deny Facebook had any responsibility for it. The company is on course of 'reform', Sir Nick says. The LibDems must be so proud of him today. He is their finest example of how you can say anything, regardless of it's relation to the signified.
Sie Nick lauds FB content moderation and their 'finely balanced' decisions, but stresses need for more AI. He says automated systems help fight fake accounts by Russian disinfo. This sounds like a medley of Mark Zuckerberg's greatest hits.
Fyi calling him 'Sir Nick' to take the piss
He says FB is working with OECD on tax reform. Never was lobbying so brazen to sell itself as cooperation.
Sir Nick announces 'new tools' to make political advertising more transparent ahead of EU elections. Ad Register like in the US for campaign and issue ads, as well as election integrity center at Facebook HQ in Dublin. They also want to remind people to vote. #Facebook#Eu2019
Clegg says user targeting on news sites is 'how the internet works'. That moves to show how Facebook, Google and others have moved to define what the Internet is.
'With technology comes responsibility'. Now Sir Nick says it is only question how social media is regulated, likening it as emerging technology to the automobile a century ago. But is surveillance capitalism in any way as useful as a car?
Depends on who you ask, I guess. Facebook has transformed advertising into a duopoly business. But it is a stretch to think this provides the public value to keep their business model untouchable.
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The news that Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested at the airport in Paris is huge, with potentially massive consequences for EU digital policy. So far, Telegram is the outlier among messaging apps - a lawless place, where scams and drug trade happen with near impunity. 🧵
Law enforcement across Europe complain that Telegram ignores requests such as for subscriber data of users engaged in suspected drug trades. Telegram gets away with it partly because its HQ is in the UAE, thus removing it from the grasp of EU authorities.
Since the EU's Digital Services Act has kicked into force last year, Telegram has named an EU representative in Belgium, which in theory makes it the point of contact for authorities across Europe. But that along gives law enforcement little leverage to get data from Telegram.
Remember when Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher had all these one-on-one meetings with important people in the European Union, including Commission President Ursula von der Leyen?
Kutcher was lobbying to curtail privacy, for the sake of fighting child sexual abuse. What gives? 🧵
Two years ago, the European Commission proposed a law that could give authorities the power to require service providers such as WhatsApp to scan all user images and videos on device for child abuse images (CSAM), even circumventing encryption. Privacy advocates were alarmed.
But despite the concerns, Kutcher's NGO Thorn lobbied heavily for the law - and offered its own software to scan for CSAM.
As the Commission readied its proposal, it thanked Thorn as 'partner' for its 'close collaboration'.
BREAKING - After reports that the EU Commission used political microtargeting to sway key groups of their controversial CSAM proposal, the European Data Protection Supervisor has reached out under the "so-called pre-investigation procedure."
What does this mean?
The EDPS requested "information related to the described use of microtargeted ads, to be provided by 20 0ctober."
The EU's data protection authority told me that while "this step does not constitute opening of a formal investigation, the EDPS will assess the information, once received from the Commissions, and decide on the potential next steps accordingly."
The Commission has denied access to the EU membership questionnaire which president Zelenskyy personally handed to Ursula von der Leyen during a visit to Kyiv in June. #Ukraine
Why is this important? Von der Leyen said in a speech on April 8 that "[t]his questionnaire is the basis for our discussion in the coming months." It details on political and economic criteria for accession, as well as the aquis of European law.
When I asked the Commission for the questionnaire, they told me that the Ukrainian government had published the questions (if not the answers) on their website. They have since been removed and are unfindable on the Wayback Machine.
Eigentlich recht merkwürdig, dass das ziemlich beachtliche Interview von @KappacherS mit Gemeindebundpräsident Riedl im Mittagsjournal heute so wenig Beachtung fand. Warum es so interessant war? Ein 🧵
Zum einen hat Riedl mit seiner kritischen Haltung zur ÖVP-Spitze kaum hinter Berg gehalten und deutlich Ärger über die vielen Korruptionsvorwürfe spüren lassen. Im einzigen Zeitungsbericht im Kurier kommt das zahm rüber, aber an der Basis brodelt offenbar. kurier.at/politik/inland…
Interessant auch, dass Riedl beim heißen Övp-Thema Kinderbetreuung ("Kann ich ein Bundesland aufheizen") mehr Geld und Standards vom Bund fordert. Hier kriegt die Kritik an der kopflosen Parteiführung eine inhaltliche Kontur.