Zuckerberg’s Data Dump (on us)
“The FTC’s $5 billion fine for Facebook is so meaningless, it will likely leave Zuckerberg wondering what he can’t get away with.” – Business Insider
After the news on Friday that the Federal Trade Commission is close to finalizing a settlement with his company for a mere $5 billion, Zuckerberg has got to be feeling similarly untouchable. If, after all the privacy and security fiascos Facebook admitted to over the past two years — including, but not limited to, the Cambridge Analytica scandal — it gets off with such a small penalty, he’s got to think he probably could get away with murder.
Fall Seven Times. Stand Up Eight
A Japanese Proverb.
Trump – The “Trust Buster”
Big Data is out of control. Who are you gonna call?
We need the same open transparency required for Utilities to be applied to Social Media "algorithms" and manual fiddling with interactions. Sunlight is the disinfectant and our only option if we are to keep our freedom. Trump needs to do for Big Data what TR did for Railroads.
— ThePublicEditor.com (@TPE_PubEditor) July 13, 2019