Company had staff on hand to ‘help people manage their privacy’ and answer questions following controversy-plagued 2018Facebook holds privacy pop-up event in New York after year of public troublesFacebook held a one-off privacy “pop-up” in New York City on Thursday, part of the company’s ongoing public relations efforts to heal its image following a controversy-plagued 2018. But Facebook’s chief privacy officer, Erin Egan, told the Guardian the pop-up, which is open between 11am and 9pm, is not a publicity stunt. “We’ll hopefully have a few hundred, or a thousand people know [more about Facebook’s privacy settings], they’ll share that with their friends and families so they’ll be able to educate others,” Egan said. “I probably should be more concerned about privacy,” she said. “It’s a little disconcerting,” Linda Iacono, 56, said of Facebook’s data breaches, although she wasn’t concerned about her own information.

Source: The Guardian December 13, 2018 19:18 UTC