<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Facebook’s likely blockchain first steps – decentralized log-ins and a stablecoin</div><div class=""><div class="article-insights-img"><div class="article-hero" style="background-image: url("//images.ctfassets.net/sdlntm3tthp6/fAiSXtaiFVaJGqCve97h8/3e9fb4e15cdcfd1c54cad0dd782445f2/bravenewcoin-facebook-token-banner.jpg");"></div></div></div><a href="https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/facebooks-likely-blockchain-first-steps-decentralized-log-ins-and-a" class="">https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/facebooks-likely-blockchain-first-steps-decentralized-log-ins-and-a</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dialogue between Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff</div><div class=""><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/zuboff/videos/188168492" class="">https://livestream.com/internetsociety/zuboff/videos/188168492</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Facebook and Christchurch</div><div class=""><a href="https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-03-2019/mark-zuckerberg-four-days-on-your-silence-on-christchurch-is-deafening/" class="">https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-03-2019/mark-zuckerberg-four-days-on-your-silence-on-christchurch-is-deafening/</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">'Your silence is an insult to our
grief': Facebook infuriated a New Zealand official with its sluggish
response to the Christchurch massacre</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.nhregister.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Your-silence-is-an-insult-to-our-grief-13713868.php" class="">https://www.nhregister.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Your-silence-is-an-insult-to-our-grief-13713868.php</a></div><div class=""><div class="article-content"><div class="article-title"><p class="byline">by Isobel Asher Hamilton/Associated Press</p></div><div class="article-body">
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<ul class="summary-list"><li class=""><strong class="">New Zealand's top
privacy official is attacking Facebook for its lack of communication
following the Christchurch massacre earlier this month.</strong></li>
<li class=""><strong class="">Privacy Commissioner John Edwards shared an email he sent to
Facebook's executives with the New Zealand Herald, in which he said:
"Your silence is an insult to our grief."</strong></li>
<li class=""><strong class="">Edwards has already expressed his frustration with the tech
giant following the shootings, which were broadcast live on its
platform.</strong></li>
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</div><p class="">New Zealand's privacy commissioner has skewered Facebook
for its lack of response following the mass shootings in two
Christchurch mosques, which were broadcast live on Facebook by the
alleged shooter.</p><p class="">Privacy Commissioner John Edwards on Monday <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12215894&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nzh_tw&ref=NZH_Tw&hootPostID=788be04d2e1574c8794a921c7cbbb083" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="">gave the New Zealand Herald</a> a copy of an email he sent to Facebook executives in which he voiced his frustrations.</p>
<div class="A300-placeholder collapse"></div><p class="">"It would be very difficult for you and your colleagues
to overestimate the growing frustration and anger here at Facebook's
facilitation of and inability to mitigate the deep, deep pain and harm
from the live-streamed massacre of our colleagues, family members and
countrymen broadcast over your network," the email said.</p><p class="">"Your silence is an insult to our grief."</p><p class=""><em class=""><strong class="">Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-says-no-one-reported-new-zealand-mosque-shootings-live-video-2019-3?r=US&IR=T?utm_source=hearst&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=allverticals" class="">Facebook says no one reported the New Zealand mosque shootings live video. But a reporter says he raised the alarm mid-attack.</a></em></p><p class="">Edwards has expressed his frustration over Facebook's
lack of communication before. Last week, he tweeted that prior to the
massacre, he had video-conferenced with Facebook and the company had
promised to keep an open and regular line of communication. He added
that he <a href="https://twitter.com/JCE_PC/status/1108633209682579456" class="">hadn't heard from the company since March 15</a>, when the shootings took place.</p>
<div class="collapse S300-placeholder"></div><p class=""><a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12214281" class="">Edwards asked Facebook to hand over account details</a> of those who shared the video of the attack after <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/update-on-new-zealand/" class="">the company announced on March 18</a>
that fewer than 200 people watched the video while it was still live,
and it was viewed a total of 4,000 times before Facebook removed it.</p><p class="">Facebook's VP of global policy Monika Bickert told the
Herald that she would not "weigh in" on Edwards' demand. She said
Facebook has to follow the law when it comes to divulging account
details, and that normally Facebook only gives them over to police if
there is "something like an imminent threat of violence."</p><p class=""><a href="http://fortune.com/2019/03/19/new-zealand-facebook-mosque-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="">Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has also criticised Facebook</a> or facilitating the proliferation of the attacker's footage, although she was in <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-19/new-zealand-facebook-christchurch-shooting-video-sheryl-sandberg/10915184" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="">contact with COO Sheryl Sandberg</a> over the issue.</p><p class="">The company announced last week that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-removed-15-million-videos-of-the-new-zealand-mosque-shootings-in-24-hours-2019-3?r=US&IR=T?utm_source=hearst&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=allverticals" class="">it removed some 1.5 million copies of the video in the 24 hours following the attack</a> — 1.2 million of which it was able to block at upload.</p><p class="">Facebook did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.</p><p class=""></p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>