It’s time for world powers to Face up to Zuckerberg
the letters, he described in detail the ways he has tried to get in touch and worked in a few digs at Prince Harry’s past antics.
He told how, in a two-page letter to Meghan, he asked for them to heal their rift.
He said he then “pointed out the royals haven’t always been perfectly behaved. I wrote that I’ve never played pool naked nor have I dressed up as a Nazi.”
Once again, Markle chose to ignore his daughter’s wishes for him to stop talking.
The retired lighting director has repeatedly failed to understand every wounding outburst makes it harder for the royal couple to trust him.
Between Christmas songs, Markle would do well to listen to Ronan Keating singing, “You say it best when you say nothing at all”.
If he does, then one day he may again see the smile on Meghan’s face.
WHEN Mark Zuckerberg once declared himself an atheist, it must have left God wondering if the Facebook creator was after his job.
For, ever since 2004 when the social media site was founded, the Harvard alumnus has gone on to become an omnipotent billionaire who increasingly it seems answers to no one.
For years he has shunned the attempts of administrations around the world to rein in his power.
But the release of more than 200 pages of internal Facebook documents and communications has finally got Zuckerberg’s attention.
They are not only damning but extremely worrying for the site’s 2.23 billion users around the world. British authorities obtained the records after serving several orders on Ted Kramer, founder of Six4three, while he was on a business trip in London.
The company filed a lawsuit against Facebook in California after its bikini photo-finder app shut down.
The app relied on users’ friend details to identify swimsuit photos but the social media firm restricted this information in 2015. Cambridge Analytica bought data acquired in the same way. The problem is, Facebook continued to allow some developers to see information closed to others. Six4three alleges this was done to extract advertising revenue from those who wanted special privileges.
The documents reveal the US company routinely rewarded friendly firms with access to users’ data while withholding it from organisations seen as potential threats.
The revelations add to mounting reports of Facebook’s questionable practices and show it cares less about privacy than its own growth.
Hardly surprising news about a company whose goal is to make money.
But it does strengthen the case that governments need to take a hard line on firms’ ability to hand over user information to third parties.
Facebook is not the only tech company demanding regulatory scrutiny but it has, perhaps uniquely, demonstrated a staggering lack of corporate responsibility and civic duty in the wake of this crisis.
Even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there was no shake-up in the firm’s upper echelons.
Despite ongoing and escalating controversies, Zuckerberg is unlikely to be ousted as CEO. He is majority shareholder and chairman.
But they raise serious questions about Facebook’s benefit to society becoming increasingly outweighed by the damage it has done and is doing.
For me the answer is simple. Delete your account. Of those I know who have, they say they have become happier.
More importantly, they no longer worry about having people mining their data before psychoanalysing it for profit.
Facebook has demonstrated a staggering lack of duty & responsibility