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What’s really unhinged is the amount of resources invested into gaslighting Meta does. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/investing-in-privacy/

They even have a “Chief Privacy Officer”. They have brainwashed entire departments into believing that Meta actually cares about privacy, it’s so terrifying. I wonder if people working there realize that, or they have simply fell for the gaslighting.

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Prior to joining Meta, she was a partner working on technology issues and co-chair of Covington & Burling’s global data practice. Erin collaborates with policymakers and experts on Meta’s products and features and is deeply involved in legislative and regulatory efforts around data protection, data portability, advertising, and Al.

E.g. ex lawyer working for a firm that ensured companies could sell and use as much data as possible and defended them if they got sued or fined. Now in charge of “Privacy,” e.g. making sure Meta can sell and use as much private data as possible. It’s literal doublespeak

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Yeah, when I saw “Chief Privacy Officer”, my first thought was “Ministry of Truth”, “Ministry of Peace”, etc.

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Spot on mate! Love you. Made my day

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It’s just a Privacy Marketplace Officer

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McDonalds sells salads too

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They probably don’t care as long as they get paid so they can live and survive in this boring dystopia

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yeah that wasn’t an excuse then, isnt an excuse now.

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morality comes second to survival

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I wonder if people working there realize that, or they have simply fell for the gaslighting.

Or they’re just like everyone else and are desperate for money to live so they sell their souls.

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The more college debt a person has, the more malleable they are.

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Step 1: Be born not in 'murica
Step 2: Get higher education
Step 3: ???
Step 4: profit

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I wouldn’t doubt that the CPO is trying their hardest to convince people to care but people just dont

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Yeah that’s often the problem. They hire people who care and are good at the stuff so they can point to them and say “we really do care as a company” and then they aren’t given the leverage they need inside the company to implement real changes

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Doesn’t CPO means Chef of marketing and communication, does it?

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Sounds to me that Meta defines privacy in a very particular way. You’re still going to give all of your data to Meta, but anything outside this transaction is in the realm of privacy where you can have rights and settings.

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