EPISODE · Jan 31, 2019 · 9 MIN
Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
For years, critics have taken aim at Facebook's privacy missteps, from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to this week's revelation that Facebook has paid people—including minors—to let it spy on all of their online activity, potentially even including their encrypted private messages. Which makes it a potentially very big deal that over the last several weeks, the company has quietly hired three prominent privacy advocates, all outspoken critics, ostensibly to help right the ship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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For years, critics have taken aim at Facebook's privacy missteps, from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to this week's revelation that Facebook has paid people—including minors—to let it spy on all of their online activity, potentially even including their encrypted private messages. Which makes it a potentially very big deal that over the last several weeks, the company has quietly hired three prominent privacy advocates, all outspoken critics, ostensibly to help right the ship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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