Facebook: What people expect from Mark Zuckerberg at MWC 2016 – Trade

The founder of Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg , will appear Monday in the world’s largest mobile congress in Barcelona. His intervention generates expectations, due to the “war” between Apple and the US authorities by the eternal debate between security and privacy.

The controversy that opposes technological giants and the authorities emerged from again earlier this month when Apple refused to cooperate with the FBI to decrypt the iPhone one of the authors of the shooting which caused 14 deaths in the Californian city of San Bernardino in December.

Like other companies the sector, the social network Facebook is positioned next to the apple brand, warning that “these requests could create a worrying precedent and obstruct the efforts of companies to increase the safety of their products” .

But Zuckerberg , who is scheduled to give a lecture Monday afternoon at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​the great fair of the sector, not yet made any comment.

This is a particularly sensitive issue for US technology companies, especially after the revelations of Edward Snowden on the national surveillance program of telephone conversations with the help of the national Security Agency (NSA) in 2013, which placed the protection of user data among its main concerns.

in Barcelona, ​​the issue is on everyone’s lips. During the presentation of its first laptop, the president of consumer products giant Chinese Huawei, Richard Yu, sided with Apple.

It is “the most important for consumers, we need to really protect privacy and consumer safety. Personally, I support the position of Apple, “Yu told Bloomberg TV.

it is inconceivable that Zuckerberg ignore the issue, especially when these personal data explain much of the economic success your social network.

This information is a gold mine for Internet companies, but also a source of increasingly frequent conflicts with users and the authorities, who become aware of its importance.

– Review in Europe –

in fact, Facebook is mired in several battles in Europe, especially in France, where authorities reproach the way manages data users and their conditions of use.

the competition regulator in the country estimated that there were “abusive clauses” in contracts for users by creating “a significant imbalance between the rights and obligations of the parties to the detriment of users. “

in addition, the French privacy regulator CNIL warned of the absence of explicit consent for mutualise their data, one of the secrets of the economic model of the network thanks to advertising.

the concerns are similar in other European countries. In Belgium, for example, a court forced Facebook to stop storing data from people without it.

While the European Union and the United States reached in early February a new agreement on the rules of transfer of personal data, provided to protect the privacy of Internet users in both Atlantic shores, the European authorities still ask for some clarifications.

But neither controversy nor the numerous fronts in Europe seem to lose sleep Zuckerberg. On Sunday he appeared relaxed in the presentation of the latest smartphones from Samsung, shortly after hang on your account Facebook some pictures of him running around Barcelona.

(AFP)

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