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"Friends don’t let friends get spied on.' – Richard Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation and longtime advocate of privacy in technology.

Revealed: Facebook’s Global Lobbying Against Data Privacy Laws

While promising more privacy in the future, Facebook’s senior management has simultaneously been lobbying politicians around the world, promising investments and incentives while seeking to pressure them into lobbying on Facebook’s behalf against data privacy legislation.

Perhaps the company should be renamed to TwoFacedBooks.com?

You can read about the recent exposure of secret, backroom lobbying in an article by Carole Cadwalladr and Duncan Campbell in The Guardian at: http://bit.ly/2TBgC52.

Categories: Legal Affairs, Online Privacy & Security

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