Ex-Meta global affairs chief says tech should stay out of politics
Former Meta Global Affairs Chief Nick Clegg said on Friday, technology companies should stay away from politics and people should feel “restless” about the companies that intervene in the public sphere.
“I don’t think that politics and technology innovation are very well confused,” CNBC said, “Squawk Box”. “I think they keep each other at a certain, respectful distance.”
President Donald Trump’s agreement with China this week to keep Tiktok alive in the United States includes heavy doses of both elements and the balance between technology and political interests will be closely monitored.
Clegg said that with Tiktok, especially two details: the ownership of the algorithm, which he says that the safety and sharing of American data will be “quite difficult”.
Clegg, who resigned Earlier this year, his role in Meta questioned whether the US data would “be kept safe here”.
Clegg has noted that India’s recent legislative effort on implementing “hard data localization” to keep all the data on citizens in India.
“When countries begin to do this, Dominos will begin to fall,” he said. “Everyone ‘no, our slice … We want data cake’. Then, of course, open data streams that guide the Internet will begin to wear.”
The executive order for Trump’s new tiktok structure sets up a joint venture company to control Tiktok’s US data and algorithm. Prophecy David Faber from CNBC, who controls cloud services and runs the safety operations of the application.
Neither China nor Tiktok’s parent company Bytectance did not comment on Trump’s Thursday’s executive order.
Clegg said the biggest risk for the Internet is probably the relationship between the US and China, and that it has the potential to push other countries to different policies.
Official, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to China President Xi Jinping standing next to the image of “striking”, he said.
“India begins to imitate China and tries to cut India as the rest of China does. … He said.
