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Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics

Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 4:31 p.m.

For years, critics have taken aim at Facebook's privacy missteps, from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to this week's revelation that Facebook has paid people\u2014including minors\u2014to let it spy on all of their online activity, potentially even including their encrypted private messages. Which makes it a potentially very big deal that over the last several weeks, the company has quietly hired three prominent privacy advocates, all outspoken critics, ostensibly to help right the ship.