As #Facebook scandal mushrooms, Zuckerberg vows to 'step up'

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg vowed Wednesday to "step up" to fix problems at the social media giant, as it fights a snowballing scandal over the hijacking of personal data from millions of its users.

"We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you," Zuckerberg said, in his first public comments on the harvesting of Facebook user data by a British firm linked to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

Writing on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg announced new steps to rein in the leakage of data to outside developers and third-party apps, while giving users more control over their information through a special toolbar.

Zuckerberg said measures had been in place since 2014 to prevent precisely the sort of abuse revealed at the weekend.

"But we also made mistakes, there's more to do, and we need to step up and do it," he said.

The scandal erupted when a whistleblower revealed that British data consultant Cambridge Analytica (CA) had created psychological profiles on 50 million Facebook users via a personality prediction app, created by a researcher named Aleksandr Kogan.

The app was downloaded by 270,000 people, but also scooped up their friends' data without consent -- as was possible under Facebook's rules at the time.

Facebook says it discovered last week that CA may not have deleted the data as it certified.

"This was a breach of trust between Kogan, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook," Zuckerberg wrote. "But it was also a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it."

"We need to fix that."

- Probe by special counsel? -

Zuckerberg's admission follows another day of damaging accusations against the world's biggest social network as calls mounted for investigations on both sides of the Atlantic.

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#Facebook blocks 131 posts after Thai court order

THE DIGITAL Economy and Society (DE) Ministry has managed to have Facebook block 131 remaining posts deemed illegal under a sweeping court order since Tuesday.

The ministry planned to block access to more than 100 posts on social media outlets, including YouTube and Twitter, by the end of this week for posting content deemed illegal or improper, according to the DE Deputy Permanent Secretary Somsak Kaosuwan.

Early this month, the authorities issued an ultimatum to many social outlets to block access to hundreds of web pages and URLs featuring “dubious” content.

After Tuesday’s deadline passed, the ministry claimed that all 131 posts on Facebook alone had been blocked in the Kingdom.

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 A Facebook spokesperson said the company would render the content unavailable in the specific country or territory and notify people who try to access it why it is restricted.

The government has blocked at least 6,900 web pages since 2015 deemed to carry illegal or improper content.

“We have had good cooperation from social media companies to close illegal URLs and we are still monitoring to delete illegal web pages,” said Somsak.

The Criminal Court advised the ministry in writing that it was authorised to block web addresses with illegal content without having to seek a court order for every one.

The ministry now plans to issue five announcements that will set guidelines of operation required under the Computer Crime Act which came into full effect on Wednesday.

New ministerial orders involve rules about the data screening committee, spam mail, and data storage. All these orders must be issued by July 23, two months after the Computer Crime Act became effective.

Source - TheNation

James Bond actor Roger Moore died of cancer

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LONDON - British actor Roger Moore, who played the womanising superspy James Bond over two decades with a suave wit, died Tuesday aged 89, his children announced.

"It is with a heavy heart that we must announce our loving father, Sir Roger Moore, has passed away today in Switzerland after a short but brave battle with cancer," they said in a statement published on Twitter.

"We are all devastated," Deborah, Geoffrey and Christian said, adding: "Thank you Pops for being you, and for being so very special to so many people."

Moore won fame as the smooth-talking adventurer Simon Templar in British television show "The Saint" in the 1960s, and also starred alongside Tony Curtis in "The Persuaders" in the 1970s.

But it was not until 1973, at the age of 45, that he won the role that for many fans would come to define him, as Bond novelist Ian Fleming's fictional secret agent.

Moore made his debut as 007 in "Live and Let Die", following it with six more films, only bowing out with 1985's "A View to a Kill", when he was 57.

In later years Moore became known for his humanitarian work, notably through his activities as a UNICEF ambassador, helping raise funds for under-privileged children.

"With the passing of Sir Roger Moore, the world has lost one of its great champions for children - and the entire UNICEF family has lost a great friend," the UN agency's executive director Anthony Lake said.

Moore's children said he considered the UNICEF work -- for which he was given a knighthood in 2003 -- his "greatest achievement".

"We know our own love and admiration will be magnified many times over, across the world, by people who knew him for his films, his television shows and his passionate work for UNICEF, which he considered to be his greatest achievement," they said.

"The affection our father felt whenever he walked on to a stage or in front of a camera buoyed him hugely and kept him busy working into his 90th year, through to his last appearance in November 2016 on stage at London's Royal Festival Hall.

"The capacity crowd cheered him on and off stage, shaking the very foundations of the building just a short distance from where he was born."

They said their thoughts were with his fourth wife, Kristina, adding that there would be a private funeral in Monaco.


Here are well-known films and TV series in which Roger Moore starred:

- 1953: "Pickup on south street" (Samuel Fuller)
- 1954: "The last time I saw Paris" (Richard Brooks)
- 1956: "Diane" (David Miller)
- 1961: "Romulus and the Sabines" (Richard Pottier)
- 1962 - 1969: "The Saint" (television series)
- 1971 - 1972: "The Persuaders" (television series)
- 1973: "Live and let die" (Guy Hamilton)
- 1974: "The man with the golden gun" (Guy Hamilton)
- 1975: "That lucky touch" (Christopher Miles)
- 1976: "The spy who loved me" (Lewis Gilbert)
- 1978: "The wild geese" (Andrew McLagen)
- 1979: Moonraker (Lewis Gilbert)
- 1980: "The Sea Wolves" (Andrew McLagen)
- 1981: "For your eyes only" (John Glen)
- 1983: Octopussy (John Glen)
- 1984: "The naked face" (Bryan Forbes)
- 1985: "A view to kill" (John Glen)
- 1996: "The Quest" (Jean-Claude Van Damme)

Source - TheNation