Slashdot reader Tekla Perry found some interesting quotes in IEEE Spectrum’s “View From the Valley” blog:
Apple, Facebook, and Proctor & Gamble executives faced some tough questions about privacy during a CES panel, and pushback from U.S. FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter.
In one exchanged, Facebook’s representative argued that Apple’s model of adding noise to data to keep it anonymous and avoiding sending too much data to the cloud wouldn’t work for Facebook. “If you come to Facebook, you want to share,” she said, continuing: “I take issue with the idea that the advertising we serve involves surveilling people.
“We don’t do surveillance capitalism, that by definition is surreptitious; we work hard to be transparent.”
The Facebook representative argued later that “we provide real value to people in terms of the advertising we deliver and we do it in a privacy protected way.”
But Apple’s senior director of global privacy had already said “I don’t think we can ever say we are doing enough.” Despite the fact that Apple has “teams” of privacy lawyers as well as privacy engineers who consider every product, “We always have to be pushing the envelope, and figure out how to put the consumer in control of their data.”
“Everything that she said about Apple holds for Facebook,” replied the Facebook representative. “But the question is what do people expect…”
And at one point, Proctor & Gamble’s representative even said “We collect the data to serve people.”
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