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FILE PHOTO: The Facebook logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken December 2, 2019. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Illustration
(Reuters) - ViacomCBS Inc’s top compliance official, Henry Moniz, is moving to Facebook Inc as the social media platform’s first chief compliance officer, as Facebook faces scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers.
“We are pleased to confirm that Henry Moniz will be joining Facebook to lead our strategy and execution of compliance matters in the U.S. and around the world,” a Facebook spokeswoman told Reuters on Thursday.
Moniz held senior compliance roles at Viacom starting in 2004. After its merger with CBS Corp in 2019, he became the chief compliance officer and chief audit executive of the combined company.
Facebook Hires Biden Transition, Obama-Era Official as VP of Civil Rights
Facebook has hired Roy Austin, an Obama administration veteran and a member of President Joe Biden’s transition team, as the social media company’s vice president of civil rights and deputy general counsel.
Austin had been a civil rights prosecutor and served as a Department of Justice (DOJ) supervisor before becoming a deputy assistant to President Barack Obama in the Office of Urban Affairs, Justice, and Opportunity in 2014. In 2017, he went into private practice as a criminal defense and civil rights attorney at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis.
In November, Biden named him as one of the volunteers on the Agency Review Team for the DOJ in his transition.
As Joe Biden was being sworn in as president of the United States, digital rights groups called on him and legislators to curb the power of technology firms and guard consumers’ online privacy.
Advocacy groups want Biden to ban facial recognition technology on his first day – which critics say can perpetuate discriminatory policing – and not to appoint individuals with extensive ties to big tech firms to his administration.
“We are very much looking forward to the opportunity president-elect has to lead the way on protecting privacy, and bring the tech companies abusing privacy practices to account,” Jane Chung, an advocate with consumer group Public Citizen, said on Wednesday.
Joe Biden for Big Tech: The new US President likely to be more aggressive than Donald Trump
Joe Biden for Big Tech: The new US President likely to be more aggressive than Donald Trump
No matter which party rules the most powerful country in the world, tech companies are staring at a tough future.
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Biden s tenure starts at a time when privacy concerns are mounting amid data breaches.
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New US President has been vocal about his views.
Big Tech staring at tough times.
The new US President Joe Biden was sworn in amid much optimism and a widely praised speech around unity and equality. With the change of personnel at the White House, things may change for several sectors but not the Silicon Valley, despite several tech executives likely to take positions in the new administration. There are not too many issues Trump and Biden would agree on. We saw that with the first set of decisions taken by the new President. But, that’s not the case with the Big Tec
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