RE: dTube: Mark Zuckerberg's Congressional Hearing Was a Joke
I was very disappointed with congress's knowledge of technology. They didn't ask the right questions, and kept accusing Zuck of selling data... which he doesn't really do.
What most fail to grasp is, once a 3rd party has your data.. it is literally impossible to "get it back" or "make them delete it". I don't understand how forensic audits work either- files are fungible... just because a company's computers doesn't have something doesn't mean there aren't copies. America needed to hear the uncomfortable truth: a TON of data about you is out there, more than you could imagine... and you can't do anything about it.
I wish they asked more about psychographic profiles, or how effective political targetting was, or why Trump had 5.2million approved facebook ads, 90 times more than Hillary's 66,000....
Yeah, it was embarrassing quite frankly
"kept accusing Zuck of selling data... which he doesn't really do". What do you mean? Facebook's core business is to sell data and show ads based on collected personal data. Without doing something with the gathered data, they couldn't survive. The question is how they will change their strategy in order to comply to grey zones of law (which still is morally doubtful if you ask me).
Someone should have asked him if he would consider an opt in to data tracking, instead of an opt out. That would make his view on privacy much more obvious. Mark kept insisting that it's easy for people to opt out, but it's mostly older people that use Facebook, and these are the people that probably don't have a clue what internet tracking is, so Facebook takes advantage of these people.