Matt Steib reports in New York Magazine: 2022 was a rough year for Meta with shares of Mark Zuckerberg’s company dropping 64 percent by the end of December. And so far 2023 isn’t going much better. On Wednesday, European Union regulators determined that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — all owned by Meta, which is based in Ireland for tax…
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Ranking Digital Rights
The RDR Index evaluated 26 of the world’s most powerful digital platforms and telecommunications companies on their disclosed policies and practices affecting people’s rights to freedom of expression and privacy. Here’s the ranking sorted by governance.
Can the Facebook CEO Also Oversee Privacy Compliance? NO.
Let’s be clear about this: the CEO and the compliance officer should not be the same person, especially when the government has had to come back for a second time after the terms of the first settlement agreement were almost immediately violated. The Federal Trade Commission is negotiating a settlement with Facebook that would create…