Facebook made the announcement on Tuesday, partly in
response to growing scrutiny from regulators and legislators over user safety
and abuses on its platforms. Activists have criticised faceprinting as a
serious threat to privacy.
"I strongly encourage government oversight,"
Haugen said.
"When they say we've got rid of this, what does that
actually mean," she asked. "There has to be more transparency on how
these operations work to make sure they actually follow through."
Ahead of a meeting with Germany's justice minister, the
whistleblower, who leaked a trove of damaging documents about Facebook's inner
workings, added that the European Union's and Britain's
"principles-based" regulation was more effective in constraining
technology companies than the United States's more rigid rules-based approach.
Europe also had a particular role to play in ensuring
Facebook improves its monitoring of content in languages other than English.
Facebook has faced criticism for failing to act against hate
speech in languages from Burmese to Greek even as it steps up its monitoring of
English-language posts in the wake of the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan.
6.
"A linguistically diverse place like Europe can be an
advocate for everybody around the world that doesn't speak English," she
said. "The reality is that Facebook has radically under-invested in safety
and security systems for all languages other than English." -Reuters
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