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Facebook: "Frances Haugen's approach is important and courageous"

2021-11-12T14:45:11.221Z


FIGAROVOX / INTERVIEW - The diagnosis made by Frances Haugen proves it: it is crucial to enforce the regulations governing digital platforms, argues Maître Adrien Basdevant.


Adrien Basdevant is a lawyer specializing in new technology law.

He is a member of the National Digital Council (CNNum) and has published

The Data Empire, an essay on society, algorithms and the law

(ed. Seuil, 2018).

LE FIGARO.

- On November 10, the old part of Facebook Frances Haugen, who made

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fuiter

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thousands of internal documents, was heard by the National Assembly in Paris.

Are we witnessing a real awareness to move forward in the fight for digital freedoms and the regulation of “internet giants

 ?

Adrien BASDEVANT.

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Awareness is growing, but particularly late.

It is incredible to have to wait for scandals to erupt or for individual initiatives to be carried out to admit the crucial importance of these subjects.

Frances Haugen's approach is important and courageous.

Note, however, that the information transmitted is neither new.

For years, the internet has been an oligopolistic market

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Source: lefigaro

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