Mark Zuckerberg Criticized by Privacy Advocates for Calling for Greater Government Regulation

Mark Zuckerberg's call to strengthen government oversight on the Internet has provoked a stern response from privacy advocates and other annoying critics following Facebook's repeated mistakes, which has stated that the most senior officer of the social network did not have the right to have the rules established.

"I do not think it's Mark Zuckerberg who ultimately decides what regulation Mark Zuckerberg is willing to accept," criticized Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, who has filed numerous complaints about data processing at personal character by society. .

Zuckerberg's proposal over the weekend, which focuses on harmful content, electoral integrity, privacy and data portability, is known at a time when Facebook and other social media companies are the subject of criticism on several fronts. In particular, they are accused of exploiting personal data, interfering with electoral processes through their platforms and failing to act quickly when tackling violence and hate speech on the Web.

Roger McNamee, a former Facebook investor who is now one of the loudest critics of the company, said in an interview that Zuckerberg's proposal "would for the most part absolve [a Facebook] without addressing the underlying causes of electoral interference, hate speech, misinformation and various privacy issues that have arisen. McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners' investment fund and author of the book "Zucked: Wake Up to Facebook Catastrophe," discussed the company's plan to merge the Instagram and WhatsApp datasets with those of Facebook, which , according to him, "greatly complicate the task of protecting the privacy of users."