{"id":1343,"date":"2021-11-24T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T10:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/senator-markey-says-facebook-statements-on-kids-advertising-appear-misleading-betaboston\/"},"modified":"2021-11-24T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T10:17:07","slug":"senator-markey-says-facebook-statements-on-kids-advertising-appear-misleading-betaboston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/senator-markey-says-facebook-statements-on-kids-advertising-appear-misleading-betaboston\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Markey says Facebook statements on kids advertising \u2018appear misleading\u2019 &#8211; BetaBoston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"html-render\">Senator Ed Markey is about as old-school a legislator as we have in Washington. While he supports partisan positions on some issues, he\u2019s often looking for a middle ground in tech policy, strategizing how to improve things incrementally while attracting support from Democrats and Republicans.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"html-render\">Back in his days on the House Commerce Committee, he helped write landmark bipartisan legislation regulating cable television and deregulating telecommunications. Then he worked on Internet privacy protection for kids and, most recently, on a law barring telecom gear from China in US networks.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"html-render\">I can tell you that he\u2019s still proud of those 1990s cable and telecom laws, as he has copies displayed in his office. The senator chatted with Pranshu Verma and me plus our editor, Greg Huang, last week and gave us a virtual office tour over Zoom.<\/span><br \/>Advertisement<br \/><span class=\"html-render\">The senator\u2019s concerns about tech remain wide-ranging. He\u2019s working on updating privacy protection for children in the era of social media. One goal is to increase the maximum age of those protected from 13 to 15. As usual, he\u2019s reaching across the aisle, on this issue working with Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy as a cosponsor. Their bill would limit collection of personal information about teenagers online and require services to let kids erase their tracks completely.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"html-render\">\u201cThere\u2019s a Dickensian quality to the Internet,\u201d Markey told us. \u201cIt\u2019s the best of wires and the worst of wires.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span class=\"html-render\">On the worse side, Markey is still worried about Facebook targeting ads at children.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"html-render\">This summer the service, now part of the company renamed Meta, promised to stop advertisers from selecting kids based on interests and browsing history. But amid <a href=\"https:\/\/fairplayforkids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fbsurveillancereport.pdf\">research<\/a> showing Facebook was still doing similar targeting of its own, Markey and two colleagues fired off a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday seeking more information.<\/span><br \/>Advertisement<br \/><span class=\"html-render\">\u201cAgainst the backdrop of these findings, Facebook\u2019s recent statements about how it limits ad targeting to young users appear misleading,\u201d they wrote.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"html-render\">A longtime advocate for net neutrality rules, Markey also expressed his support for both of President Biden\u2019s nominations to the Federal Communications Commission. Without enough support in the Senate to get past a filibuster, the FCC is Markey\u2019s and other Democrats\u2019 only hope to revive the rules protecting Internet content from discrimination by carriers.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"html-render\">The commission, typically controlled by the party in the White House, is currently deadlocked with two Democrats and two Republicans. It wasn\u2019t until Oct. 26, however, when President Biden nominated former FCC staffer Gigi Sohn to fill the empty seat and renominated acting FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel for another term. Some Republican senators are making noise about blocking Sohn, but Markey praised her work on net neutrality and broadband accessibility.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"html-render\">Markey also raised other areas of concern, including funding research atthe National Institutes of Health on the impact of social media on kids and regulating the use of automated decision-making software in areas like finance, a cause known as algorithmic justice.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"html-render\">But before we could dig too deeply into those issues, the peripatetic senator was off to his next appointment.<\/span><br \/>Aaron Pressman can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:aaron.pressman@globe.com\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:auto;font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:.5px\" rel=\"noopener\">aaron.pressman@globe.com<\/a>. 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While he supports partisan positions on some issues, he\u2019s often looking for a middle ground in tech policy, strategizing how to improve things incrementally while attracting support from Democrats and Republicans.Back in his days on the House Commerce Committee, he helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}