After his appearances, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder and CEO, and his staff members are going to be very busy. Here are a few things he has said he or his team would get back to Congress on and a few questions he was asked during the hearings. It’s a long list.
• If Facebook would change its default settings to reduce user data collection and its subsequent use.
• Why the company rejected the political ad of a Michigan state senate candidate to which he said Silicon Valley could be a little left leaning.
• Artificial intelligence tools and other strategies used to identify accounts that spread wrong information. And the company’s policy on facial recognition in its app which he said users can opt in or out off.
• How Facebook would apply the oncoming General Data Protection Regulation privacy rules by the EU to the U.S.
• Disclose the data mined for security purposes and whether Facebook employees who censored pro-Trump video personalities, Diamond and Silk, where reprimanded.
• If content reviewers treat Facebook users fairly.
• On a possible meeting of technology firms Chief Executives to increase racial diversity in the tech industry and is to disclose data on employee retention broken out by race.
• Promise to extend rural broadband.
• A follow-up on the number of Facebook “like” and “share” buttons on non-Facebook pages and would relay a time frame within which Facebook will respond to the request for transparency by regulators.
• Follow-up on the data points of non-Facebook users kept by Facebook. Zuckerberg added that he did not know the data point average for Facebook users.
• How Facebook handles law enforcement requests from foreign countries, especially in Russia.
• Possible further breaches in which user data was improperly transferred to third parties.
• Report on the exact number of fake accounts removed.
• If Facebook employees worked with Cambridge Analytica and or helped in President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
• If Facebook collects minor’s data, tracks their browsing activity even when logged off Facebook and generally collects data from devices logged off the social network.
• A potential privacy bill of rights for minors on the internet to be worked on by the Facebook team as he said.
• If some specific pages were a part of the Russian misinformation operations during the 2016 presidential election.
• A discussion on where the company needs regulation.
• If Zuckerberg himself would return to Congress to support the Honest Ads Act and if Facebook would support some pieces of legislation.
• If Facebook’s new bounty program also investigates unauthorized data access.
• And how many Nevadans had their data harvested and how long Facebook keeps user data after accounts have been deleted.
