Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics

In December, Facebook hired Nathan White away from the digital rights nonprofit Access Now, and put him in the role of privacy policy manager. On Tuesday of this week, lawyers Nate Cardozo, of the privacy watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Robyn Greene, of New America’s Open Technology Institute, announced they also are going in-house at Facebook. Cardozo will be the privacy policy manager of WhatsApp, while Greene will be Facebook’s new privacy policy manager for law enforcement and data protection.

By bringing them in-house, Facebook sends the message that it’s going to give real decisionmaking power to people who deeply understand the ways in which the social media site and its family of apps undermine the privacy of its users. The open question is whether Facebook will actually listen.

Source: Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics | WIRED