Meta or Zuckbook: A Look Back to 2020 and 2021 and Years of Human Rights and Other Stuff Progress
July 18, 2022
Meta or the Zuckbook is into human rights. The evidence is a free 83 page report called “Meta Human Rights Report: Insights and Actions 2020-2021.” The document covers in order of presentation:
An Executive Summary (~ seven pages)
Meta’s Human Rights Work in Practice (~ two pages)
Table of Contents with the book beginning on page 13 (yeah, I wondered about the numbering too)
Human Rights Policy Timeline
Part 1: Meta’s Human Rights Commitments (~ 11 pages)
Part 2: Meta’s Human Rights Policy in Practice (28 to 82 or 54 pages)
A Final Note.
The content of the report is interesting. I found a couple of statements which caused me to take up my trusty True Blue color marker. May I share what I circled?
We seek to embed our commitments in a governance model which supports integration of our human rights work with ongoing activities and policies on civil rights and Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) efforts, as part of the company’s culture, governance, decision making processes and communication strategies.
Seek and you will find I suppose.
Simply put — we seek to translate human rights guidance into meaningful action, every day.
Yep, another notable “seek.”
In these circumstances we seek to promote international human rights standards by engaging with governments, and by collaborating with other stakeholders and companies.
Okay, seek. How about a quick visit to FreeThesaurus.com for some help?
We also have technical mechanisms in place to mitigate and prevent third parties from accessing data from Meta, through proactive and reactive measures like prevention, deterrence, detection and enforcement.
Do Israeli intelware companies have systems and methods to obviate these super duper data slurpers? “Senator, that you for the question. I will send that information to your office” may be the response to a Congressional questioner.
I enjoyed this quote from the sci fi icon Isaac Asimov:
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Here’s my take on Facebook-type social media:
Nothing tears apart a society than ill-managed, ad-centric social media.
I am not Isaac Asimov, but I think I am correct in my observation. Enjoy the “looking back” report from the estimable virtual reality social ad selling heir to MySpace and Friendster. Will Facebook share a similar fate? Gee, I hope not. I am interested in learning if Isaac Asimov’s quote applies to Facebook in 2022:
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future — a good future, a useful future — and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
Did the Meta Zuck thing predict I would sit in my chair with a headset on, interacting with what may or may not be humans, instead of meeting in a coffee shop or an office conference room and talking to a live person? What’s up in 2022? Wow, more Zuckster stuff.
Stephen E Arnold, July xx, 2022
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