A fascinating conversation with behind-the-scenes glimpses of Meta's take on data privacy with Pedro Pavón, the Global Policy Director responsible for monetization, privacy, and fairness. Meta has been the focus of attention for its role in society and the public discourse. Pedro sheds light on some of the challenges and solutions social media companies need to tackle to preserve privacy, facilitate research and mitigate impacts on democracy. In this conversation, we'll talk about:
  • Social media challenges: fake news and its impact on democracy,
  • how to balance individuals' right to privacy and the collective interest, 
  • how natural language processing and voice commands help the illiterate,
  • personalization and media bubbles,
  • how to research news behavior without endangering individuals' privacy,
  • how the massive amount of available information and shorter content formats impact people,
  • AI fairness in the recommender and advertising ecosystem,
  • the role of privacy professionals and philosophers in AI development,
  • how to define fairness and the technical challenges of definition,
  • how can fair synthetic data unlock sensitive attributes,
  • privacy enhancing technologies to facilitate fairness without creating tension with privacy,
  • the future of synthetic data as a privacy-enhancing technology for AI fairness,
  • how far are we from federal privacy regulations in the US,
  • the challenges of data anonymization and reidentification,
  • how can synthetic data help with measuring data privacy,
  • the role of privacy professionals in the metaverse and the new privacy issues that will need to be taken care of.