Facebook hires team to lobby governments on privacy issues

London Telegraph
Tuesday, Dec 29th, 2009

Facebook has hired a team of lobbyists to try to sway governments on its privacy regulations, it has emerged.

In 2009 the social networking site saw incredible
growth, going from 50 million users worldwide in January to more than
350 million in less than 12 months.

However, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, 25, has realised
that the biggest difficulty is how to manage the privacy of users while
growing so fast.

With so much personal information kept on its servers, it is coming
under increasing scrutiny from governments and campaign groups.

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