I'm a New Zealander. I think our privacy commissioner is so totally wrong here. It's a hard technical problem to solve. It's an even harder political problem to solve.
Automatic censorship of live feeds, how do you do that?
Automatic take downs of videos doctored to avoid being removed, how to do you do that?
Then if you have these automatic systems in place how do you avoid getting accused of censoring everyone?
I don't think Facebook is a doing the world a lot of good. But this is silly. It just shows how little the commissioner has thought about the details of his comments.
Automatic censorship of live feeds, how do you do that? Automatic take downs of videos doctored to avoid being removed, how to do you do that?
Then if you have these automatic systems in place how do you avoid getting accused of censoring everyone?
I don't think Facebook is a doing the world a lot of good. But this is silly. It just shows how little the commissioner has thought about the details of his comments.