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I mean, they used to work for a company that quite literally is built upon the practice of stealing people's data and selling it to the highest bidder. Surely, that means they are the best person to know how to counter that, right? Right?!
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Possibly, yes. Set a thief to catch a thief.
Personally I doubt the integrity of anyone working at Facebook.
And they were a lobbyist. They weren't just a pretty functionary writing emails and getting coffee for the people in charge. They were actively and knowingly advocating for the abuses Meta is infamous for.
Now Ireland is Meta data so they would obviously need a Meta data protection chief.