Threaten human rights by being based on surveillance and according to a new Amnesty International report the Group Alleges the tech giants violate privacy and freedom of expression. Of all reports on the scene for national released a report outlining how facebook and google of the use human rights and that its increasing dominance over the new Global Public square controlling the main channels the companys surveillance based Business Model forces people to make a fast whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human rights abuse their report accuses google and facebook of violating the right to privacy on an unprecedented scale as well as freedom of expression. Not only does it represent an intrusion into billions of peoples private lives that can never be necessary or proportionate but the companies have conditioned access to this services on consenting to processing and sharing of their personal data for marketing and adverti
Thanks for joining us this hour. Google and facebook Business Models threaten human rights by being based on surveillance according to a new Amnesty International reports the Group Alleges the tech giants violate privacy and freedom of expression argument in a question about reports. On this Day International released a report outlining how facebook and google up use human rights and that its increasing dominance over the new Global Public square controlling the main channels the companys surveillance based Business Model forces people to make a fast whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human rights abuse their report accuses google and facebook of violating the right to privacy on an unprecedented scale as well as freedom of expression. Not only does it represent an intrusion into billions of peoples private lives that can never be necessary or proportionate but the companies have conditioned access to their services on
A curated world view inhospitable to pluralistic political discourse amnesty his report has only confirmed what has long been known as both tack giants have been caught red handed countless times the worlds eyes were opened to the risk these tech platforms posed back in 28 by the facebook can break Analytical Data scandal data from 87000000 peoples profiles were harvested and used to micro target and manipulate people for political campaigning purposes and it looks like were still havent learned all the lessons last week a report in the wall street journal revealed that google partner it with Health Care Provider asuncion to secretly collect and store medical records on millions of patients across 21 states all after the company failed to convince customers to hand over their medical data voluntarily mean. Well facebook has a vivid lee deny the latest allegations made by the n. S. A. International a persons choice to use Facebook Services and the way we collect receiver use data all cl
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The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized today declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today, were here to examine the impact of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witness is facebooks chairman and ceo, mark zuckerberg. Facebooks plans to create a digital currency, libra, and a digital wallet raise many concerns relating to privacy, trading risk, discrimination, opportunities for diverse owned financial firms, National Security, Monetary Policy, and the stability of the Global Financial system. I and other democrats have called for a moratorium on facebooks development of this digital currency, libra, and digital wallet until congress can examine the issues associated with a Big Tech Company developing these Digital Products and take