Sheryl Sandberg to Step Down as COO of Facebook-parent Meta
Sheryl Sandberg, the No. 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta, is stepping down. Sheryl Sandberg helped take the company from a startup to a digital advertising behemoth while also taking responsibility for some of the company’s biggest blunders.
For the past 14 years, Sandberg has led the social media behemoth as its chief operations officer. She came from Google and joined Facebook in 2008, four years before the company went public.
“I expected to be in this position for five years when I started in 2008.” “It’s time for me to write the next chapter of my life, fourteen years later,” Sandberg wrote on her Facebook page on Wednesday.
Sandberg oversaw Facebook’s advertising business, which Meta now owns, and was responsible for growing it from its beginnings to a $100 billion-a-year behemoth.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/sheryl-sandberg-facebook-steps-down-55b7f5dd6ca202c442c9705f6920e613
Canada’s Beloved Tim Hortons Spied on Everyone Who Used Its App, Regulator Says
An examination by federal and provincial privacy watchdogs determined that the Tim Hortons mobile ordering app broke the law by gathering enormous quantities of location data from users.
According to a report issued Wednesday, privacy commissioners claimed customers who downloaded the Tim Hortons app had their activities tracked and logged every few minutes, even when the app was not open on their phones.
After National Post reporter James McLeod got data demonstrating that the Tim Hortons app on his phone had monitored his whereabouts over 2,700 times in less than five months, the investigation was launched.
Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien investigated with privacy commissioners from British Columbia, Quebec, and Alberta.
Ottawa Wants To Search Your Phone at the Border, but Its Proposed Rules Are Unreasonably Suspicious
On Wednesday, senators were warned by civil liberties groups that a proposed legal barrier for when border agents can check cellphones is too low and that it should be raised to the same level that precludes authorities from searching a person’s mail.
At a meeting of the Senate’s national security and defence committee, Meghan McDermott, policy director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, said, “Crossing the border with a personal digital device is analogous to crossing the border with almost every piece of mail a person has ever received or sent.”
“It’s ludicrous to expect a single written letter to be afforded greater legal protection than information kept on a personal digital device.”