Facebook has hardly been the champion of user privacy, so it's telling that Barr wants to push past even their--extremely lackadaisical--level of consideration on the subject. This is a horrible...
Facebook has hardly been the champion of user privacy, so it's telling that Barr wants to push past even their--extremely lackadaisical--level of consideration on the subject.
This is a horrible idea and will imperil online security and privacy for everyone everywhere.
The DOJ is intentionally mixing up policy with pathos, and it's very difficult to make good decisions when these two things get conflated. Certainly, if I had to choose between my child getting...
While the letter acknowledges that Facebook — which owns Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram — captures 99% of child exploitation and terrorism-related content through its own systems, it also notes that "mere numbers cannot capture the significance of the harm to children."
The DOJ is intentionally mixing up policy with pathos, and it's very difficult to make good decisions when these two things get conflated.
Certainly, if I had to choose between my child getting abused and political surveillance and oppression of a billion people, I'd trade the billion people for my child. But good policy can't be designed like that.
This kind of deception should tell us everything we need to know about their true motives.
Facebook has hardly been the champion of user privacy, so it's telling that Barr wants to push past even their--extremely lackadaisical--level of consideration on the subject.
This is a horrible idea and will imperil online security and privacy for everyone everywhere.
The DOJ is intentionally mixing up policy with pathos, and it's very difficult to make good decisions when these two things get conflated.
Certainly, if I had to choose between my child getting abused and political surveillance and oppression of a billion people, I'd trade the billion people for my child. But good policy can't be designed like that.
This kind of deception should tell us everything we need to know about their true motives.
Old farts don't understand new technology, demand changes that undermine its reason for existing. More at 11.