臉書行政官表示悔悟，但公開度仍不足

Facebook Executives Contrite, But Transparency

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Mark Zuckerberg can admit when he』s wrong.

We didn』t take a broad enough view of what our responsibility is.

And that was a huge mistake. It was my mistake.

So can Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg.

Well, we made big mistakes and we know that.

But the Facebook executives aren』t taking all the blame.

The vast majority of the data that Facebook knows about you is because you chose to share it.

With information people had already listed on Facebook publicly.

And those justifications may offer a preview of deliberations next week

as Zuckerberg prepares to testify before Congress for the mishandling of potentially 87 million users data by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

In the United States a lot of what goes on online platforms clean Facebook but also the app stores.

All of this is sort of governed by self-regulation,

the type of auditing, the types of actual enforcement that goes on is not super clear.

And that means tech companies pay a comparatively small price for their bad behavior.

The FTC was able to extract a fine from Google but it was only 20 million dollars

which I believe is about half of a day』s revenue from Google.

So you know the fines are sort of just the cost of doing business.

That business still involves sharing user data with third party app developers.

Despite the lack of transparency, Sandberg makes the social media Giants goals sound noble.

We believed in a world where people could share and experience things together

and we just weren』t thinking enough about the bad use cases.

Come Tuesday they』ll have to think a little bit harder.

With Yulia Oliva in Washington, Tina Tran, VOA News New York

臉書行政官表示悔悟，但公開度仍不足

【translation】

麥克?扎克伯格勇於承認自己的過失。

我們並沒有充分意識到我們的責任是什麼。

這是個很大的失誤，這是我的失誤。臉書的CEO 謝爾樂?桑德伯格說道。

我們知道自己犯了嚴重的過失，但臉書的行政官並不接受責備。

之所以臉書上有你大量的私人數據是因為你選擇了分享。人們將信息公開在臉書上。

這些辯解可能會是個預演，扎克伯格準備在下周的關於未能妥善處理行政諮詢公司Cambridge Analytica八千七百萬用戶的數據會議之前證明。

在美國，網頁平台發生的很多事清理了臉書和應用商城。

這些都是自我規則的管理，審計的類型、規章的嚴格執行的類型都不是很明確。這意味著科技公司對於它們的惡劣行為只付出了相對而言較小的代價。

公平貿易委員會是從谷歌那獲取了罰款，但也僅僅是兩千萬美元，這只是谷歌半天的收入。所以你知道那些罰款只是商業的一點代價。商業還包括了和第三方應用開發者分享用戶數據。

儘管缺乏透明度，桑德伯格制訂的社會媒體""巨人""目標聽起來很高尚。

我們堅信人們可以在世上一起分享和經歷很多，

只是我們可能沒有充分考慮到惡意使用的情況。下個周二他們將必須想的更深入。

【tips】

1.Cambridge Analytica 是英國企業 Strategic Communication Laboratories 註冊在美國的公司。

2.事件：CA前員工Christopher Wylie爆料該公司盜用FB數據並用於製造有利於川普競選的材料。Facebook被質疑早已得知數據泄露問題，但遲遲沒有採取行動，迫於媒體爆料壓力，才在2018年3月18日宣布，因CA違反相關數據政策，暫停其向FB獲取數據和投放廣告的通道。

3.FTC：Fair Trade Commission 公平貿易委員會

【vocabulary】

1.extract：取出

2.enforcement：執行，實施

3.audit：審計，查賬

4.deliberation：慎重的考慮

5.transparency：透明度

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