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Facebook, Google execs cough to their biggest privacy blunders

Posted on April 22, 2015 by pogowasright.org

Iain Thomson reports from RSA:

Facebook, Google and Microsoft spent a few minutes today discussing at this year’s RSA conference in San Francisco how they attempt to protect your privacy.

El Reg asked execs present from the trio of tech giants to name their biggest privacy cockups, and surprisingly two out of the three had an answer.

“Beacon might be a good example of this, although it was before my time,” said Erin Egan, chief privacy officer at Facebook.

Read more on The Register.

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