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CTOnews.com Sept. 9, with the continuous development of science and technology, the scientific and technological innovation of many technology companies began to have an impact on society. Under this background, the concept of "responsible innovation" appears, and its main content is to closely combine corporate social responsibility with technological innovation, and effectively evaluate and influence all aspects of technological innovation from an ethical point of view. in order to ensure the sustainability and social acceptability of technological innovation achievements.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has disbanded its responsible innovation team, which was set up a few years ago, which was an important part of Meta's efforts to solve potential negative problems with its products, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Meta's responsible innovation team is made up of dozens of engineers, ethicists and others who work with product teams within the company, privacy experts, academics and users outside the company to identify long-term problems with the company's products, including Facebook and VR, and to take action to prevent potential negative effects from becoming a reality.

Eric Porterfield, a spokesman for Meta, said Meta is still committed to responsible innovation, but the company believes that it is more important for each product department to deal with its own problems than a team to solve the company's responsible innovation-related issues. For the members of the team, he said that most of the team members would continue to do similar work in other parts of Meta, but there was no guarantee that everyone would be able to stay. The spokesman also said that Meta believes that product design resources are best spent on teams that solve specific problems.

Zvika Krieger, a former Meta employee and head of the responsible innovation team, said in an interview that the responsible innovation team received special support from Michael Schroepfer, the former chief technology officer of Meta, who announced his departure last year. As for the specific work of the responsible innovation team, he said the team promoted the decision not to allow Facebook's dating App to filter search results by race.

CTOnews.com learned that on September 5 this year, a spokesman for the Irish data privacy regulator said that the Irish data privacy regulator had agreed to impose a record fine of 405 million euros (about 2.782 billion yuan) on the social network Instagram after investigating its handling of children's data.

Specifically, Instagram allows these child users to operate business accounts, prompting them to disclose phone numbers and / or e-mail addresses, which is suspected of violating the EU General data Protection regulations (GDPR).

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