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welcome to f8 today we are going to talk
about building a privacy focused social
platform
Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at
Facebook's annual f8 developer
conference earlier today after a
tumultuous year that involved all sorts
of privacy issues and data leaks the CEO
outlined the steps the company is taking
to make Facebook Instagram whatsapp and
its other services more private but
before that the CEO had a few laughs
about the company's recent privacy woes
look I get that a lot of people aren't
sure that we're serious about this I
know that we don't exactly have the
strongest reputation on privacy right
now to put it lightly
Zuckerberg then launched into six
principles the company is focusing on
private interactions encryption reducing
permanence safety interoperability
and finally secure data storage some of
the approaches the company is taking are
enabling end-to-end encryption on its
messaging platforms and building safety
precautions into products before
shipping them Zuckerberg also emphasized
the company won't store its data in
countries where the data could be at
risk because you should expect that
we're not going to store sensitive data
in countries where it may be improperly
accessed either because there's weak
rule of law or because a government I
try to forcibly get access to your data
so over the next few years we're gonna
build more of our services around these
ideas one of the big announcements was a
new redesign coming later this year the
new Facebook design will put an emphasis
more on groups and communities and
Zuckerberg says plans are already in
place to address misuse and
misinformation and you know while we're
recommending groups for people to join
we're very focused on making sure there
are recommendations and discovery
surfaces aren't highlighting groups
where people are repeatedly sharing
misinformation or harmful content and
we're working
to completely remove groups if they
exist primarily due to violate our
policies or or do things that are
dangerous so that's just been a very big
focus for us here as he finished
speaking Zuckerberg was upfront that
it's still early in the company's new
privacy focused mission it's still early
but if we get this right then using all
of these services is going to be a
fundamentally different experience a few
years from now because we believe that
for the future
people want a privacy focused social
platform looks like he's come a long way
from thinking people don't care about
their privacy so if we work hard and
deliver this vision that we've laid out
today then I'm gonna be proud of the
difference that we've made so thank you
all looking forward to doing this
together and have a great
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