Chapter 6Monitor Data in Production
I subscribe to several newsletters. In January 2022, one weekly newsletter from the author Anne Helen Petersen shared the concept of policy drift. First proposed by Jacob Hacker, policy drift describes problems that arise when policies built to serve specific social needs are not updated to solve modern problems.[30]
As one example, Section 230 is a piece of U.S. legislation that protects website platforms from being held liable for third-party content.[31] Signed in February 1996, this legislation intended to distinguish website providers from traditional publishers. Suffice to say, it fails to account for social media, big data, and a range of realities that exist today. That leaves companies like Meta largely ...
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