{"id":859,"date":"2009-12-29T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T20:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2016-06-07T07:01:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:01:13","slug":"facebook-hires-privacy-lobby-in-washington-and-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/facebook\/facebook-hires-privacy-lobby-in-washington-and-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Hires Privacy Lobby in Washington and Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook social network experienced wild growth in 2009. Facebook went from 50 million registered people in January to more than 350 million registered people in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook spent $9.5M in 2009 to settle a lawsuit regarding their advertising tool that was rolled out in 2007 and viewed by many as an invasion of user privacy.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2009 Facebook made changes to their social network that exposed millions of people&#8217;s personal information to the web.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Facebook has become a storehouse of personal information, it is feeling the growing pressure from governments and privacy advocates to safeguard user data.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to head off future legal threats over privacy issues, Facebook has hired a team of lobbyists in Washington and Brussels to press its case with elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see whether or not the Facebook privacy lobby acts as educators or palm-greasers to the elected officials the are trying to influency.<\/p>\n<p>[ Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/facebook\/6904309\/Facebook-hires-team-to-lobby-governments-on-privacy-issues.html\">UK Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook social network experienced wild growth in 2009. Facebook went from 50 million registered people in January to more than 350 million registered people in less than a year. Facebook spent $9.5M in 2009 to settle a lawsuit regarding their advertising tool that was rolled out in 2007 and viewed by many as an [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/facebook\/facebook-hires-privacy-lobby-in-washington-and-brussels\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Facebook Hires Privacy Lobby in Washington and Brussels<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5954,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}