From Facebook posts to The Washington Post.
The big tech landscape is one that continues to be populated by regulators, by disparate voices calling for more oversight, more laws, more mandates spelling out what is private and what is not.
To the growing chorus … add Facebook.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in blog posts and an op-ed in The Washington Post this past weekend that there should be heavier regulations on his industry (on the internet in general) and that, with a nod to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), a common framework is to be desired.
The blog post offered up four areas for “more active” oversight and more government participation. Elsewhere, Zuckerberg said a benefit of updating rules would be the protection of elections, where new rules for online political ads would “reflect the reality of the threats” with which social media companies grapple.
“Every day, we make decisions about what speech is harmful, what constitutes political advertising and how to prevent sophisticated cyberattacks,” wrote Zuckerberg. “These are important for keeping our community safe. But if we were starting from scratch, we wouldn’t ask companies to make these judgments alone.”
GDPR as a Framework
As is germane to GDPR, wrote the executive in his blog, “Effective privacy and data protection needs a globally harmonized framework. People around the world have called for comprehensive privacy regulation in line with the European Union’s General Data Prot
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