Outrage as Ireland picks ex-Meta lobbyist as new data protection chief (euobserver.com)
from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to privacy@lemmy.ml on 24 Oct 10:20
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In an open letter to the Irish government on Thursday (23 October), signed by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, noyb, ARTICLE 19, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, plus 40 others, highlights the conflict of interest Sweeney brings to a position that is supposed to police the same firms in which she used to work.

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DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 12:54 next collapse

Now Ireland is Meta data so they would obviously need a Meta data protection chief.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 24 Oct 16:25 next collapse

I mean, they used to work for a company that quite literally is built upon the practice of stealing people’s data and selling it to the highest bidder. Surely, that means they are the best person to know how to counter that, right? Right?!

/S

frongt@lemmy.zip on 25 Oct 15:17 collapse

Possibly, yes. Set a thief to catch a thief.

Personally I doubt the integrity of anyone working at Facebook.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 25 Oct 17:55 collapse

And they were a lobbyist. They weren’t just a pretty functionary writing emails and getting coffee for the people in charge. They were actively and knowingly advocating for the abuses Meta is infamous for.

deprecateddino@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 17:10 collapse

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