#tech #scandals #facebook
В качестве воскресного чтения - лонгрид размера XXL от Wired про события прошедших (почти) полутора лет в Facebook.
В этот промежуток вошло много чего - от скандалов с утечками данных и обвинений в подрыве демократических устоев до громких успехов (рекордная прибыль) и громких же увольнений.
Уверен, не будь Зак инопланетянином, он был бы уже седой.
"...the most crucial episode in this story... began not long after Davos, when some reporters from The New York Times, The Guardian, and Britain’s Channel 4 News came calling. They’d learned some troubling things about a shady British company called Cambridge Analytica, and they had some questions."
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-15-months-of-fresh-hell/
В качестве воскресного чтения - лонгрид размера XXL от Wired про события прошедших (почти) полутора лет в Facebook.
В этот промежуток вошло много чего - от скандалов с утечками данных и обвинений в подрыве демократических устоев до громких успехов (рекордная прибыль) и громких же увольнений.
Уверен, не будь Зак инопланетянином, он был бы уже седой.
"...the most crucial episode in this story... began not long after Davos, when some reporters from The New York Times, The Guardian, and Britain’s Channel 4 News came calling. They’d learned some troubling things about a shady British company called Cambridge Analytica, and they had some questions."
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-15-months-of-fresh-hell/
WIRED
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.
#неблокчейн_money #facebook #libra #digital_currency
Facebook fleshes out plans to launch a digital currency called Libra
It’s due to launch during the first half of 2020.
Facebook gets into banking: Libra will be available for Messenger and WhatsApp users around the world, and anyone who downloads the (yet-to-launch) app. Facebook says it has the lofty goal of bringing financial services to the 1.7 billion around the world who still don’t have bank accounts. Libra will let you send money to almost anyone with a smartphone, as easily as a text message and at “low to no cost,” Facebook says. All the details are in a white paper that Facebook released today.
The details: The Libra team will be governed by a non-profit foundation called Calibra based in Switzerland. Facebook already has backing for the project from 27 organizations, including Uber, Visa, Spotify, Vodafone, Mastercard, and nonprofit Women’s World Banking. Each of these partners has agreed to invest at least $10 million in the project.
Is it a cryptocurrency? Facebook dubs it a “new global currency powered by blockchain technology.” But it won’t be truly decentralized so Bitcoin purists probably won’t count it as a true cryptocurrency. Libra’s co-creator David Marcus tweeted that it will comprise three components: a blockchain, a reserve-backed currency (the digital wallets will be locally regulated in each country), and a new programming language called Move. But in practice, it sounds a bit like a more high-tech version of PayPal.
Questions remain: It isn’t clear how Facebook will make money off this, but it’s a safe bet that it will be planning to (it has promised not to sell targeted ads based on Libra data.) And the biggest question of all is whether people will trust Facebook with their hard-earned cash, after the way the company has repeatedly behaved recklessly with their data.
Via MIT Tech Review
Axios про Libra:
"Be smart: This is not Bitcoin. Unlike the pioneering cryptocurrency and many of the other digital-token experiments out there, the goal here is not to supplant the traditional financial system but rather to extend it to serve people without access to conventional banking or stable "fiat" (government-created) currency."
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-425c1ec2-5919-4d00-a8be-c62dd84ba5d6.html?
Facebook fleshes out plans to launch a digital currency called Libra
It’s due to launch during the first half of 2020.
Facebook gets into banking: Libra will be available for Messenger and WhatsApp users around the world, and anyone who downloads the (yet-to-launch) app. Facebook says it has the lofty goal of bringing financial services to the 1.7 billion around the world who still don’t have bank accounts. Libra will let you send money to almost anyone with a smartphone, as easily as a text message and at “low to no cost,” Facebook says. All the details are in a white paper that Facebook released today.
The details: The Libra team will be governed by a non-profit foundation called Calibra based in Switzerland. Facebook already has backing for the project from 27 organizations, including Uber, Visa, Spotify, Vodafone, Mastercard, and nonprofit Women’s World Banking. Each of these partners has agreed to invest at least $10 million in the project.
Is it a cryptocurrency? Facebook dubs it a “new global currency powered by blockchain technology.” But it won’t be truly decentralized so Bitcoin purists probably won’t count it as a true cryptocurrency. Libra’s co-creator David Marcus tweeted that it will comprise three components: a blockchain, a reserve-backed currency (the digital wallets will be locally regulated in each country), and a new programming language called Move. But in practice, it sounds a bit like a more high-tech version of PayPal.
Questions remain: It isn’t clear how Facebook will make money off this, but it’s a safe bet that it will be planning to (it has promised not to sell targeted ads based on Libra data.) And the biggest question of all is whether people will trust Facebook with their hard-earned cash, after the way the company has repeatedly behaved recklessly with their data.
Via MIT Tech Review
Axios про Libra:
"Be smart: This is not Bitcoin. Unlike the pioneering cryptocurrency and many of the other digital-token experiments out there, the goal here is not to supplant the traditional financial system but rather to extend it to serve people without access to conventional banking or stable "fiat" (government-created) currency."
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-425c1ec2-5919-4d00-a8be-c62dd84ba5d6.html?
Axios
Pro Rata
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