Mark Zuckerberg promises this time his company will really protect your data, after Cambridge Analytica revelations. Except Facebook just pushed legislation that does the opposite.
By Spencer Ackerman
Facebook, plunged into crisis by the Cambridge Analytica revelations,
is now scrambling to assure users – and investors – that this time,
their data really, truly is secure. And on a recent post-crisis media
blitz, founder Mark Zuckerberg has emphasized that the mass exfiltration
of scads of profiles from unsuspecting Facebook users was a vestige of a
past privacy practice, not a symptom of anything wrong with current
Facebook policy.
Yet Facebook urged Congress to pass a measure,
the CLOUD Act, that privacy advocates warn makes it easier for a foreign
government to acquire Americans’ emails, pics, videos and other online
data, and then share that with U.S. law enforcement. It also makes it
easier for those foreign governments to get the online lives of their
own citizens from the servers of companies like Facebook.
Congress
tucked the CLOUD Act into its omnibus spending bill – the measure it
passed in the wee hours of Friday morning to avert a government
shutdown. President Trump, after vacillating, signed it into law today.
“Despite
Facebook's promise to take Americans' personal privacy seriously, it
and other big tech companies championed a bill that will let foreign
governments directly demand emails and other personal information from
those under protection of U.S. law, all without oversight from U.S.
courts,” Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat on the intelligence
committee, told The Daily Beast on Friday.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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