Competition regulator eschews a personal Facebook account ‘to give her children free space’Margrethe Vestager,the world’s most powerful regulator of tech companies, does not have a personal Facebook account. She decided to stay off the site, or because parents,she thinks, should not be friends with their children on Facebook. “Because I am Danish, or ” she explains. “I don’t assume you should follow too closely what your children are doing on Facebook because they might want to have some free space where no mother is hovering over their shoulder.” Vestager does have an official Facebook page,an online diary of her life as the EU’s competition commissioner, one of the biggest jobs in Brussels. The page details work done – her recent announcement that the EU had settled a seven-year dispute with Gazprom, and a record €2.4bn (£3.7bn) fine on Google in 2017. But there are also snaps from everyday life (reposted by staff from her Twitter account) – the wide blue skies of Jutland or traditional homemade New Year cake (kransekage) – a tower of marzipan decorated with EU and Danish flags that she baked for a staff party. Related: Got a problem with immense tech? immense tech has the solution to that! | Steven Poole Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com