Everyone wants to pile on poor Mark Zuckerberg.
Anyone have a practical solution in mind?
FTC to
Probe Facebook Over Privacy Practices
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) confirmed news
reports from last week that it had opened an inquiry over the
harvesting of data on tens of millions of Facebook users by the
British consulting group Cambridge Analytica.
… Acting FTC consumer protection chief Tom
Pahl said the agency will look into whether Facebook violated its
privacy promises or failed to comply with the US-EU agreement on data
protection known as the Privacy Shield.
The agency also will also determine if Facebook
engaged "in unfair acts that cause substantial injury to
consumers in violation of the FTC Act."
… Separately,
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles Grassley said he had
asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear at a hearing on April 10
"to discuss Facebook's past and future policies regarding the
protection and monitoring of consumer data."
Grassley
said he also invited Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack
Dorsey "to discuss the future of data privacy in the social
media industry."
(Related)
Mark
Zuckerberg refused to explain Facebook's data scandal to British
politicians — and wants to put senior execs in the firing line
instead
For my Software Architecture students. Design a
better digital instrument panel.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-latest-technology-is-awesome-just-not-always-in-your-car-1522152001
In Car
Makers’ Digital Dash, Little Room for Error
Luxury cars are shedding the knobs, needles and
dials once needed to control the cabin, opting instead for digital
dashboards. But the software that now runs everything from
speedometers to climate controls can prove buggy, causing car buyers
to rethink just how modern they want their cars to be.
Car companies that typically charge a hefty
premium have issued recalls to fix various glitches, and regulators
now pinpoint software problems as being responsible for an increasing
number of malfunctions.
Now this is an interesting article that I
completely disagree with. Kind of like saying Drug Dealers are a
utility? I can see the failure of Water, Gas, Electricity or Banking
causing massive disruption, but Social Media? I might even agree
that the Internet is rather important. Sometimes Social media acts
like they believe this.
The Social
Utility | Social Media
If you study economic cycles, you can watch the
evolution of a disruptive technology throughout its lifecycle, from a
specific product to a competitive industry. The last phase in the
evolutionary chain is the formation of a utility.
For example, over a couple of centuries we've seen
the evolution of electricity from a curiosity, to a business, to a
group of public companies. Along the way there were the inevitable
mergers and acquisitions to enable a winnowing field of competitors
to achieve the scale needed to compete in very large markets.
It wasn't just the electric industry that went
through an evolution. The oil, gas and coal industries did the same.
Banking is in a similar position. In fact, any industry that
attracts the term "too big to fail" is showing signs of
utility status.
When your business becomes so big that it affects
large segments of society, it can't be allowed to fail lest it crater
the economy or cause massive disruption that would injure many
people. At that point, government has a compelling interest in
preventing failure -- and along with that, an interest in regulating
the riskiest corporate behaviors.
The latest example to hit the radar might be
social media, which has completed many steps of the lifecycle with
blistering speed in just over a decade. This speed notwithstanding,
we are now at a point where what happens in social media affects all
of us.
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Is this why my students are surfing the Internet
as I lecture?
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