Facebook beefs up privacy, security staff amid ongoing scrutiny over data collection practices
Although Facebook seems unable to stop infuriating tech watchdogs, the company’s efforts to regain the public’s trust have made quantifiable progress in at least one category: hiring more humans to work on safety and security. Colin Stretch, a vice president and general counsel, told Congress in 2017 Facebook would double staff in those areas to more than 20,000 employees by the end of 2018 in response to outrage following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The company now has roughly 30,000 employees assigned to safety and security, Nathaniel Gleicher, head of the cybersecurity policy, said Tuesday at a panel at the State of the Net Conference in Washington. Recent additions to the privacy team include Nate Cardozo, an established Facebook critic from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Robyn Greene, who is leaving her role at the Open Technology Institute to focus on law enforcement access and data protection issues at the social media company. Both hires […]
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