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This week Meta hosted nearly 100 privacy academics, technologists, and thought leaders from around the world for a Global Privacy Flyout in Menlo Park to discuss how best to center privacy across product development, innovation, and tech policymaking. This is part of our ongoing work to engage outside stakeholders to embed privacy in everything we build.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been working in this space since the 90\u2019s, when a flurry of data protection rules were enacted. Today, we are on the precipice of a new era in both policymaking and tech. Generative AI in particular has captured the world\u2019s imagination \u23e4 and regulatory attention.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As we launch our products against this ever-evolving landscape, we rely on a global community of external stakeholders to advise us. The community\u2019s contributions are tangible. Convenings like this week\u2019s event are where our stakeholders advise us on design improvements to our privacy policy, user controls, and our approach to responsible AI and the metaverse. They make Meta\u2019s products better for the billions of people who rely on them, and their work benefits the wider world.<\/span><\/p>\n To help kick off the event, the International Association of Privacy Professionals\u2019 (IAPP) <\/span>Cobun Zweifel-Keegan<\/span><\/a>, Michel Protti, Meta\u2019s Chief Officer of Privacy, Product, and I spoke about how our relationships with external stakeholders have contributed to our overhaul of privacy since 2019. We answered questions and discussed challenges regarding delivering privacy at scale, and the significant investments we\u2019ve made to embed innovative privacy solutions across our product development lifecycle.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMeta has come a really long way since 2019 to develop with the community, and really also\u00a0 take responsibility for a lot of things, but in the end, standards and also regulation comes in when society cannot push responsibility onto one actor or several really strong actors.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Kirsten Rulf, Partner and Associate Director, Boston Consulting Group\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Participants traveled from nearly every continent and corner of the world: Africa, Latin America, Australia, North America, and Asia, bringing decades of experience in data privacy. Technology may leap across borders but regulation usually does not, which makes hearing about regional variation from our partners critical to Meta\u2019s work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI do think there is enormous variation across a region and unless Meta and other organizations lean in to various national concerns, they won\u2019t be hearing them in Menlo Park.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Prof. Peter Leonard, Principal, Data Synergies Pty Limited, APAC<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOpen discussions, even when there is disagreement, it furthers knowledge and improves the technical quality of the discussion.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Prof. Juliano Maranhao, Founding Partner, Sampaio Ferraz Advogados<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOne thing collaboration throws up as an opportunity is to hear diverse voices. There are experiences you have that you think is your own experience, but when you share, you find out at different stages that there are people who solved that problem.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative, AMET<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The event included several sessions on how we build protections into emerging tech. From red-team exercises to regulatory sandbox projects like <\/span>Open Loop<\/span><\/a>, sharing knowledge of multi-disciplinary approaches leads to better, more innovative, and more workable privacy solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day we are think tanks, we are nonprofit organizations that are seeking to advance the use of AI and other technologies for good\u2026 let\u2019s keep doing things that are tangible.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Claudia del Pozo, Founder, Eon Institute\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTraditional red-teaming involves you putting on the hat of a bad person trying to do a malicious thing. Now we\u2019re like, well, why don\u2019t you just try to be a regular person, trying to do a thing, and then getting a wrong answer? [This is] something that is very very very hard to tackle, and it\u2019s something that needs to be tackled at scale and from a wide range of perspectives.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, Founder and CEO, Humane Intelligence<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Responsible privacy design practices for emerging technologies like generative AI and AR\/VR require consultation with outside experts, and we are committed to soliciting that feedback across our products.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe type of data we\u2019re dealing with when you deal with spatial computing devices is really novel. [Meta] was really responsive in listening to advocates and users\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Brittan Heller, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n We ended the event with the promise of many more opportunities to engage. In particular, we announced a new impact grant for our open source large language model, <\/span>Llama 2<\/span><\/a>. We\u2019re working to supercharge responsible AI development by accepting applications from organizations across the globe for how Llama 2 can be applied to drive improved environmental, educational and other positive social outcomes. <\/span>Submissions open October 6<\/span><\/a>, and we\u2019re looking forward to seeing what the community has to share.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We are grateful to everyone who visited us in Menlo Park and participated in the Global Privacy Flyout. Our work to protect people\u2019s data and build responsible products is never done, and we look forward to collaborating with this dynamic community for years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n You can listen to my fireside chat with my co-CPO Michel Protti and IAPP\u2019s Cobun Zweifel-Keegan on the <\/span>Privacy Conversations podcast<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nLeadership and Accountability<\/h2>\n
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