{"id":692,"date":"2021-11-19T05:16:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T04:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/after-facebook-leaks-here-is-what-should-come-next-eff\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T05:16:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T04:16:31","slug":"after-facebook-leaks-here-is-what-should-come-next-eff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/after-facebook-leaks-here-is-what-should-come-next-eff\/","title":{"rendered":"After Facebook Leaks, Here Is What Should Come Next &#8211; EFF"},"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>Every year or so, a new Facebook scandal emerges. These blowups follow a fairly standard pattern, at least in the U.S. First, new information is revealed that the company misled users about an element of the platform\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/04\/us\/politics\/cambridge-analytica-scandal-fallout.html\"><span>data sharing and data privacy<\/span><\/a><span>,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/22\/jan-6-capitol-riot-facebook\/\"><span> extremist content<\/span><\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/17\/17989712\/facebook-inaccurate-video-metrics-inflation-lawsuit\"><span>ad revenue<\/span><\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/12\/facebook-fake-engagement-whistleblower-sophie-zhang\"><span>responses to abuse<\/span><\/a><span>\u2014the list goes on. Next, following a painful news cycle for the company, Mark Zuckerberg puts on a sobering presentation for Congress about the value that Facebook provides to its users, and the work that they\u2019ve already done to resolve the issue. Finally, there is finger-wagging, political jockeying, and within a month or two, a curious thing happens: Congress does nothing. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>It\u2019s not for lack of trying, of course\u2014much like Facebook, Congress is a many-headed beast, and its members rarely agree on the specific problems besetting American life, let alone the solutions. But this year may be different.<\/span><br \/><span><span>Many of the problems highlighted by these documents are not particularly new.\u00a0Regardless, we may finally be at a tipping point.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span>For the last month, Facebook has been at the center of a lengthy, damaging news cycle brought on by the release of thousands of pages of leaked documents, sent to both Congress and news outlets by former Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen. The documents show the company struggling internally with the negative impacts of both Facebook and its former-rival, now-partner platform, Instagram. (Facebook\u2019s attempt to rebrand as Meta should not distract from the takeaways of these documents, so we will continue to call the company Facebook here.) <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>In addition to internal research and draft presentations released several weeks ago, thousands of new documents were released last week, including memos, chats, and emails. These documents paint a picture of a company that is seriously grappling with (and often failing in) its responsibility as the largest social media platform. In no particular order, the documents show that: <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Many of the problems highlighted by these documents are not particularly new. People looking in at the black box of Facebook\u2019s decision-making have come to similar conclusions in several areas; those conclusions have simply now been proven. Regardless, we may finally be at a tipping point. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>When Mark Zuckerberg <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/12\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg-testimony.html\"><span>went in front of Congress<\/span><\/a><span> to address his company\u2019s role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal over three years ago, America\u2019s lawmakers seemed to have trouble agreeing on basic things like how the company\u2019s business model worked, not to mention the underlying causes of its issues or how to fix them. But since then, policymakers and politicians have had time to educate themselves. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/10\/28\/twitter-facebook-google-senate-hearing-live-updates\/\"><span>Several<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/meetings\/big-data-big-questions-implications-for-competition-and-consumers\"><span>more<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/25\/981203566\/5-takeaways-from-big-techs-misinformation-hearing\"><span>hearings<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/committee-activity\/hearings\/hearing-on-protecting-consumer-privacy-in-the-era-of-big-data\"><span>addressing<\/span><\/a><span> the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/calendar\/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=2248\"><span>problems<\/span><\/a><span> with Big Tech writ large, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/facebook-s-2018-timeline-scandals-hearings-security-bugs-n952796\"><span>with<\/span><\/a><span> Facebook in particular have helped government develop a better shared understanding of how the behemoth operates; as a result, several pieces of legislation have been proposed to rein it in. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Now, the Facebook Papers have once again thrust the company into the center of public discourse, and the scale of the company\u2019s problems have captured the attention of both news outlets and Congress. That\u2019s good\u2014it\u2019s high time to turn public outrage into meaningful action that will rein in the company. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>But it\u2019s equally important that the solutions be tailored, carefully, to solve the actual issues that need to be addressed. No one would be happy with legislation that ends up benefitting Facebook while making it more difficult for competing platforms to coexist. For example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/03\/facebooks-pitch-congress-section-230-me-not-thee\"><span>Facebook has been heavily promoting<\/span><\/a><span> changes to Section 230 that would, by and large, harm small platforms while helping the behemoth. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Here\u2019s where EFF believes Congress and the U.S. government could make a serious impact: <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Much of the damage Facebook does is a factor of its size. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/10\/bangkok-burlington-public-interest-social-internet\"><span>Other social media sites<\/span><\/a><span> that aren\u2019t attempting to scale across the entire planet run into fewer localization problems, are able to be more thoughtful about content moderation, and have, frankly, a smaller impact on the world. We <\/span><i><span>need<\/span><\/i><span> more options. Interoperability will help us get there. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Interoperability is the simple idea that new services should be able to plug into dominant ones. An interoperable Facebook would mean that you wouldn\u2019t have to choose between leaving Facebook and continuing to socialize with the friends, communities and customers you have there. Today, if you want to leave Facebook, you need to leave your social connections behind as well: that means no more DMs from your friend, no more access to your sibling\u2019s photos, and no more event invitations from your co-workers. In order for a new social network to get traction, whole social groups have to decide to switch at the same time &#8211; a virtually insurmountable barrier. But if Facebook were to support rich interoperability, users on alternative services could communicate with users on Facebook. Leaving Facebook wouldn\u2019t mean leaving leaving your personal network. You could choose a service &#8211; run by a rival, a startup, a co-op, a nonprofit, or just some friends &#8211; and it would let you continue to connect with content and people on Facebook, while enforcing its own moderation and privacy policies.<\/span><br \/><span>We<span>\u00a0<\/span><i>need<\/i><span>\u00a0<\/span>more options. Interoperability will help us get there.<\/span><br \/><span>Critics often argue that in an interoperable world, Facebook would have less power to deny bad actors access to our data, and thus defend us from creeps like Cambridge Analytica. But Facebook has <\/span><i><span>already<\/span><\/i><span> failed to defend us from them. When Facebook does take action against third-party spying on its platform, it\u2019s only because that happens to be in its interests: either as a way to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2018\/04\/restricting-data-access\/\"><span>quell massive public outcry<\/span><\/a><span>, or as a convenient excuse to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-lawsuits-take-aim-at-data-sharing-tool-key-to-digital-economy-11607646680\"><span>undermine legitimate competition<\/span><\/a><span>. Meanwhile, Facebook continues to make billions from its own exploitation of our data. Instead of putting our trust in corporate privacy policies, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/wp\/interoperability-and-privacy\"><span>we\u2019d need a democratically accountable privacy law<\/span><\/a><span>, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2019\/01\/you-should-have-right-sue-companies-violate-your-privacy\"><span>a private right of action<\/span><\/a><span>. And any new policies which promote interoperability should come with built-in safeguards against the abuse of user data.<\/span><br \/><span>Interoperability isn\u2019t an alternative to demanding better of Facebook &#8211; better moderation, more transparency, better privacy rules &#8211; rather, it\u2019s an immediate, tangible way of helping Facebook\u2019s users escape from its walled garden <\/span><i><span>right now<\/span><\/i><span>. Not only does that make those users\u2019 lives better &#8211; it also makes it more likely that Facebook will obey whatever rules come next, not just because those are the rules, but because when they break the rules, their users can easily leave Facebook. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Facebook knows this. It\u2019s been waging a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/08\/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs\"><span>secret war on switching costs<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d for years now. Legislation like the ACCESS Act that would force platforms like Facebook to open up are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/06\/new-access-act-good-start-heres-how-make-sure-it-delivers\"><span>a positive step<\/span><\/a><span> toward a more interoperable future. If a user wants to view Facebook <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2020\/11\/once-again-facebook-using-privacy-sword-kill-independent-innovation\"><span>through a third-party app that allows for better searching<\/span><\/a><span> or more privacy, they ought to be able to do so. If they want to take their data to platforms that have better privacy protections, without leaving their friends and social connections behind, they ought to be able to do that too. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Users deserve meaningful controls over how the data they provide to companies is collected, used, and shared. Facebook and other tech companies too often choose their profits over your privacy, opting to collect as much as possible while denying users intuitive control over their data. In many ways this problem underlies the rest of Facebook\u2019s harms. Facebook\u2019s core business model depends on collecting as much information about users as possible, then using that data to target ads &#8211; and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/12\/11\/facebooks-alleged-use-of-apis-to-crush-competition-is-a-warning-to-other-data-companies\/\"><span>target competitors<\/span><\/a><span>. Meanwhile, Facebook (and Google) have created an ecosystem where other companies &#8211; from competing advertisers to independent publishers &#8211; feel as if they have no choice but to spy on their own users, or help Facebook do so, in order to squeak out revenue in the shadow of the monopolists.<\/span><br \/><span>Stronger baseline federal privacy laws<span>\u00a0<\/span>would<span>\u00a0<\/span>help steer companies<span>\u00a0<\/span>like Facebook<span>\u00a0<\/span>away from collecting so much of our data.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2019\/06\/effs-recommendations-consumer-data-privacy-laws\"><span>Stronger baseline federal privacy laws<\/span><\/a><span> would <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2018\/12\/facebooks-latest-scandal-shows-we-need-stronger-privacy-laws\"><span>help steer companies<\/span><\/a><span> like Facebook<\/span><span> away from collecting so much of our data. They would also level the playing field, so that Facebook and Google cannot use their unrivaled access to our information as a competitive advantage. A strong privacy law should require real opt-in consent to collect personal data and prevent companies from re-using that data for secondary purposes. To let users enforce their rights, it must include a private cause of action that allows users to take companies to court if they break the law. This would put tip the balance of power away from the monopolists and back towards users. Ultimately, a well-structured baseline could put a big dent in the surveillance business model that not only powers Facebook, but enables so many of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/expricom\/status\/1418684089201307648\"><span>worst harms of the tech ecosystem<\/span><\/a><span> as well. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Facebook\u2019s broken system is fueled by a growth-at-any-cost model, as indicated by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/05\/technology\/what-happened-at-facebook-whistleblower-hearing.html\"><span>some of the testimony<\/span><\/a><span> Haugen delivered to Congress. The number of Facebook users and the increasing depth of the data it gathers about them is Facebook\u2019s biggest selling point. In other words, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/10\/what-facebook-whistleblower-tells-us-about-big-tech\"><span>Facebook\u2019s badness is inextricably tied to its bigness<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0 <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>We\u2019re pleased to see antitrust cases against Facebook. Requiring Facebook to divest Instagram, WhatsApp, and possibly other acquisitions and limiting the companies\u2019 future mergers and acquisitions would <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2020\/12\/federal-and-state-antitrust-suits-challenging-facebooks-acquisitions-are-welcome\"><span>go a long way toward solving some of the problems with the company<\/span><\/a><span>, and inject competition into a field where it\u2019s been stifled for many years now. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/24\/house-tech-giants-breakup-bill-496091\"><span>Legislation<\/span><\/a><span> to facilitate a breakup also awaits House floor action and was approved by the House Judiciary Committee. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Some of the most detailed documents that have been released so far show research done by various teams at Facebook. And, despite being done by Facebook itself, much of that research\u2019s\u00a0 conclusions are critical of Facebook\u2019s own services.<\/span><br \/><span>For example: a large percentage of users report seeing content on Facebook that they consider disturbing or hateful\u2014a situation that the researcher notes \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/1847937866\"><span>needs to change.<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d Research also showed that some young female Instagram users <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/01\/technology\/facebook-instagram-teenagers.html\"><span>report that the platform makes<\/span><\/a><span> them feel bad about themselves. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>But one of the problems with documents like these is that it\u2019s impossible to know what we don\u2019t know\u2014we\u2019re getting reports piecemeal, and have no idea what practical responses might have been offered or tested. Also, some of the research might not always mean <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/10\/opinion\/instagram-facebook-mental-health-study.html\"><span>what first glances would indicate<\/span><\/a><span>, due to reasonable limitations or the ubiquity of the platform itself.<\/span><br \/><span>EFF has been critical of Facebook\u2019s lack of transparency for a very long time. When it comes to content moderation, for example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2020\/10\/thank-you-your-transparency-report-heres-everything-thats-missing\"><span>the company\u2019s transparency reports lack many of the basics<\/span><\/a><span>: how many human moderators are there, and how many cover each language? How are moderators trained? The company\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.facebook.com\/community-standards-enforcement\"><span>community standards enforcement<\/span><\/a><span> report includes rough estimates of how many pieces of content of which categories get removed, but does not tell us why or how these decisions are taken.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span><span>The company must make it easier for researchers both inside and outside to engage in independent analysis.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span>Transparency about decisions <\/span><i><span>has<\/span><\/i><span> increased in some ways, such as through the Facebook Oversight Board\u2019s public decisions. But revelations from the whistleblower documents about the company\u2019s \u201ccross-check\u201d program, which gives some \u201cVIP\u201d users a near-blanket ability to ignore the community standards, make it clear that the company has a long way to go.\u00a0 Facebook should start by embracing the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/santaclaraprinciples.org\/\"><span>Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation<\/span><\/a><span>, which are a starting point for companies to properly indicate the ways that they moderate user speech. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>But content moderation is just the start. Facebook is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/11\/05\/facebook-facial-recognition\/\"><span>constantly talking out of both sides<\/span><\/a><span> of its depressingly large mouth\u2014most recently by announcing it would <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/11\/face-recognition-so-toxic-facebook-dumping-it\"><span>delete face recognition templates<\/span><\/a><span> of users of Facebook, then <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22761598\/facebook-facial-recognition-meta\"><span>backing away<\/span><\/a><span> from this commitment in its future ventures. Given how two-faced the company has frankly, always been, transparency is an important step towards ensuring we have real insight into the platform. The company must make it easier for researchers both inside and outside to engage in independent analysis. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Facebook must do more to respect its global user base. Facebook\u2014the platform\u2014is available <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/26\/tech\/facebook-papers-language-hate-speech-international\/index.html#:~:text=While%20Facebook's%20platforms%20support%20more,content%20moderation%20teams%20do%20not.\"><span>in over 100 languages<\/span><\/a><span>, but the company has only translated its community standards into <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.fb.com\/policies\/community-standards\/?from=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcommunitystandards%2F\"><span>around 50 of those<\/span><\/a><span> (as of this writing). How can a company expect to enforce its moderation rules properly when they are written in languages, or dialects, that its users can\u2019t read? <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>The company also must ensure that its employees, and in particular its content moderators, have cultural competence and local expertise. Otherwise it is literally impossible for them to appropriately moderate content. But first, it has to <\/span><i><span>actually employ people with that expertise<\/span><\/i><span>. It\u2019s no wonder that the company has tended to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/facebook-moderate-posts-violent-countries-517050\"><span>play catch-up<\/span><\/a><span> when crises arrive outside of America (where it also isn\u2019t exactly ahead of the game).<\/span><br \/><span>And by the way: it\u2019s profoundly disappointing that the Facebook Papers were released only to Western media outlets. We know that many of the documents contain information about how Facebook conducts business globally\u2014and particularly how the company <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/read\/3464914622\"><span>fails to put appropriate resources behind its policymaking and content moderation practices<\/span><\/a><span> in different parts of the world. Providing trusted, international media publications that have the experience and expertise to provide nuanced, accurate analysis and perspective is a vital step in the process\u2014after all the majority of Facebook\u2019s users worldwide live outside of the United States and Europe. <\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/><span>Facebook is big, but it\u2019s not the internet. More than a billion websites exist; tens of thousands of platforms allow users to connect with one another. Any solutions Congress proposes must remember this. Though Zuckerberg may \u201cwant every other company in our industry to make the investments and achieve the results that [Facebook has],\u201d forcing everyone else to play by their rules won\u2019t get us to a workable online future. We can\u2019t fix the internet with legislation that pulls the ladder up behind Facebook, leaving everyone else below. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>For example: legislation that forces sites to limit recommended content <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/11\/lawmakers-choose-wrong-path-again-new-anti-algorithm-bill\">could have disastrous consequences<\/a>, given how commonly sites make (often helpful) choices about the information we see when we browse, from restaurant recommendations to driving directions to search results. And forcing companies to rethink their algorithms, or offer \u201cno algorithm\u201d versions, may seem like fast fixes for a site like Facebook. But the devil is in the details, and in how those details get applied to the entire online ecosystem.<\/span><br \/><span>The Facebook leaks should be the starting point\u2014not the end\u2014of a sincere<span>\u00a0<\/span>policy debate over concrete approaches that will make the internet\u2014not just Facebook\u2014better for everyone.\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span>Facebook, for its part, seems interested in easy fixes as well. Rebranding as \u201cMeta\u201d amounts to a drunk driver switching cars. Gimmicks designed to attract younger users to combat its aging user base are a poor substitute for thinking about why those users refuse to use the platform in the first place. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Zuckerberg has gotten very wealthy while wringing his hands every year or two and saying, \u201csorry. I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m trying to fix it.\u201d Facebook\u2019s terrible, no good, very bad news cycle is happening at the same time that the company reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/good-job-everyone-facebook-turned-a-9-billion-profit-1847931609\"><span>a $9 billion dollar profit<\/span><\/a><span> for the quarter. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Zuckerberg insists this is not the Facebook he wanted to create. But, he\u2019s had nearly two decades of more-or-less absolute power to make the company into whatever he most desired, and this is where it\u2019s ended up\u2014despised, dangerous, and immensely profitable. Given that track record, it\u2019s only reasonable that we handicap his suggestions during any serious consideration about how to get out of this place. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Nor should we expect policymakers to do much better unless and until they start listening to a wider array of voices. While the leaks have been directing the narrative about where the company is failing its users, there are plenty of other issues that aren\u2019t grabbing headlines\u2014like the fact that Facebook <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/why-facebook-keeps-collecting-peoples-data-and-building-their-profiles-even-when-their-accounts-are-deactivated\/\"><span>continues collecting data on deactivated accounts<\/span><\/a><span>. A focused and thoughtful effort by Congress must include policy experts who have been studying the problems for years. <br \/><\/span><br \/><span>The Facebook leaks should be the starting point\u2014not the end\u2014of a sincere<\/span> <span>policy debate over concrete approaches that will make the internet\u2014not just Facebook\u2014better for everyone.\u00a0<\/span><br \/><em>Update: An earlier version of this post described the UC Davis &lsquo;Equitable Access&rsquo; program as it was implemented in Fall 2020. We have updated this post to clarify the changes made to the program in August 2021.<\/em>It goes by many names, but no matter how you cut it, the new&#8230;<br \/>San Francisco\u2014Public investments in open access fiber networks, instead of more subsidies for broadband carriers, will bring high-speed internet on a more cost-efficient basis to millions of Americans and create an infrastructure that can handle internet growth for decades, according to a new report.Commissioned by EFF, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/document\/wholesale-fiber-key-broad-us-fttp-coverage\">Wholesale Fiber is<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>Oakland residents shared the stories of their personal experience; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/document\/oakland-internet-choice-coalition-letter\">broad coalition<\/a> of advocates, civil society organizations, and local internet service providers (ISPs) lifted their voices; and now the Oakland City Council has unanimously passed Oakland\u2019s Communications Service Provider Choice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/document\/oaklands-communications-service-provider-choice-ordinance\">Ordinance<\/a>. The newly minted law frees Oakland renters&#8230;<br \/>The European Parliament\u2019s regulations and policy-making decisions on technology and the internet have unique influence across the globe. With great influence comes great responsibility. We believe the European Parliament (EP) has a duty to set an example with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/files\/consolidatedeupolicyprinciples.pdf\">Digital Services Act<\/a> (DSA), the first major overhaul of European&#8230;<br \/>Through her leaks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/05\/technology\/what-happened-at-facebook-whistleblower-hearing.html\">Congressional testimony<\/a>, Frances Haugen, the \u201cFacebook Whistleblower,\u201d revealed a lot about Facebook&rsquo;s operation. Many of these revelations are things we&rsquo;ve long suspected but now have proof of: Facebook focuses on growth\u2014of users and time spent on its platforms\u2014to the exclusion of everything else. For Facebook,&#8230;<br \/><em>The European Committee on Legal Affairs adopted the proposals discussed here on Sept. 30 by a vote of 15+\/9-. The proposals now go to the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), which will develop a position with a vote scheduled for November 8. <\/em>European Union (EU) civil&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"#main-content\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2021\/11\/after-facebook-leaks-here-what-should-come-next\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year or so, a new Facebook scandal emerges. These blowups follow a fairly standard pattern, at least in the U.S. First, new information is revealed that the company misled users about an element of the platform\u2014data sharing and data privacy, extremist content, ad revenue, responses to abuse\u2014the list goes on. 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