在 Facebook 用戶數(shù)據(jù)泄露事件后，CEO 馬克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）于4月11日在華盛頓國會山參加了美國國會的聽證會。會上扎克伯格表示，F(xiàn)acebook 公司目前所面臨的問題，都是他的錯誤造成的，他也會負責到底。
在出席參議院聽證會后，扎克伯格又參加了眾議院聽證會，在質(zhì)詢中再次對 Facebook 數(shù)據(jù)泄露事件表示道歉，并回答了 Facebook 關于數(shù)據(jù)隱私、網(wǎng)絡監(jiān)管、對大選的影響、壟斷等問題。
從這次 Facebook 用戶數(shù)據(jù)泄露事件我們也可以覺察到，如今坐擁海量數(shù)據(jù)卻缺乏透明管理的公司非常之多，那該如何從法律層面對當下高科技巨頭進行有效的監(jiān)管和約束？這可能會成為當下值得人們?nèi)パ芯康囊粋€非常重要的課題。
本篇課程節(jié)選自經(jīng)濟學人官方網(wǎng)站文章“Face-off”
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Face-off
① On April 11th Mark Zuckerberg testified before testy politicians in Washington about the firm's latest privacy controversy, first to a joint hearing of two Senate committees that lasted around four hours, and then again on April 12th to a House of Representatives committee.
② While in the long term some sort of regulation is inevitable, it seems less likely in the near term.
③ Laws take years and sometimes decades to come into effect for burgeoning industries.
④ For Facebook to change in any meaningful way, Congress will have to change too.
⑤ One of the most stunning revelations of the highly choreographed hearings was not anything Mr Zuckerberg said, but how little America's politicians seemed to know about Facebook and the way the world of digital communications operates.
⑥ There is little hope for smart regulation that will protect users' privacy until the people who would draft laws understand the ecosystem they need to tame.
⑦ The Cambridge Analytica scandal gave Mr Zuckerberg a crash course in political diplomacy, but the education of politicians about the opaque, labyrinthine world of digital data is only just beginning.
▍生詞好句
face-off: n. 對決；競爭
testify /?test?fa?/: vi. (出庭) 作證 vt. 證實
· A testify to B: A 作為證據(jù)證實了 B
He testified that five people were harassed by the boss.
他證實有五個人遭到了這個老板的騷擾。
The empty shops in the street testify to the depth of the recession.
大街上空空蕩蕩的店鋪證實了經(jīng)濟衰退的嚴重程度。
testy /?testi/: adj. 怒氣沖沖的；暴躁易怒的
hearing /?h??r??/: n. 聽證會
senate /?sen?t, ?sen?t/: n. 參議院
House of Representatives: 眾議院
burgeoning: adj. 飛速發(fā)展的
· burgeon /?b??d??n, ?b??rd??n/: vi. 飛速發(fā)展
stunning /?st?n??/: adj. 令人震驚的
revelation /rev??le???n/: n. 被揭露的真相、內(nèi)情
· reveal /r??vi?l/: vt. 泄露；披露
· revealing /r??vi?l??/: adj. 發(fā)人深思的
choreograph /?k?r??ɡrɑ?f, ?k??ri?ɡr?f/: vt. 策劃；安排
draft /drɑ?ft, dr?ft/: vt. 起草
ecosystem /?i?k???s?st?m/: n. 生態(tài)系統(tǒng)
tame /te?m/: adj. 溫順的；馴服的 vt. 馴化；監(jiān)管控制
crash course: 強化速成課
diplomacy /d??pl??m?si/: n. 處理人際關系的手腕、手段；外交
opaque /???pe?k/: adj. 不透明的；混沌的
labyrinthine /?l?b??r?nθa?n/: adj. 錯綜復雜的
▍責任編輯
李煥、李秋健、陳鑫悅、章曉丹
