And what that means is that the senator “took its (the industry’s) assurances around things like age-estimation AI as being workable without privacy infringement.”
The most obvious problem: Ofcom is supposed to regulate Facebook as well as the rest of the industry, and now the question of a possible conflict of interest is arising. After all, Allan spent a full decade as Facebook’s vice president. And coming up with a “strategic direction” for Ofcom is among the regulator’s Board’s tasks.
