The Mozilla Foundation today published its Internet Health Report 2018. In a nutshell, the report calls for the regulation of large companies such as: Google, Amazon and Facebook.
As you can see, the release date of the Internet Health Report is not at all coincidental, since it "coincided" with the day that the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, will testify before Congress.
Although large companies such as Alibaba and Tencent in China have "helped billions realize the benefits of the Internet", the report calls for legislation to address some factors to eliminate the consolidation of power and monopoly business practices that undermine privacy. and internet competition. ”
"They exclude competitors, limiting innovation in the process," the report said.
“As their ability to understand vast amounts of data increases through its progress artificialς νοημοσύνης και της κβαντικής πληροφορικής, είναι πιθανό να προχωρήσουν σε παρακείμενες επιχειρήσεις μέσω κάθετων ενσωματώσεων σε hardware, λογισμικό, υποδομές, αυτοκίνητα, μέσα ενημέρωσης, εκτός αν βρούμε έναν τρόπο να τους σταματήσουμε.”
Governments should implement anti-competitive anti-competitive laws and review anti-monopoly anti-monopoly models when implementing regulations for technology giants, according to the report.
The Internet Health Report does not attempt to examine and rate the "health" of the Internet or diagnose problems. Instead, it explores important issues that the report's authors believe contributed to the current Internet environment and examines how these trends are affecting people's lives in the real world.
The fake news and propaganda, (see Facebook), as well as weak Internet security (IoT), refer to the report between trends affecting the real world.
"By 2020 we will have up to 30 billion devices, including unsecured webcams, baby monitors and other devices that can be used as a [data collection] weapon," the report says. "With every device without a password the internet becomes a little more fragile and dangerous.”
The authors of the report cited as an example the use of malware Mirai, which gained control over a number of Internet devices (IoT) and played an important role in a DDoS attack on Dyn.
The Internet Health Report reports that censorship and internet harassment have worsened, as well as some good news about Internet access, data encryption and affordability.
Overall, the report finds that the number of Internet users around the world continues to increase, but it also states that prices should continue to decline in order to gain even more access.
The Internet Health report is an open source initiative implemented with the help of Mozilla Techniques, Digital Rights Activists and Researchers.
To read the entire report, visit the website internethealthreport.org. The first report was released in January of 2017.