Facebook ex-security chief: How ‘hypertargeting’ threatens democracy

Alex Stamos, then-chief information security officer at Yahoo! Over the past three months, Yahoo Finance has spoken with 19 people who have known him professionally over the course of his career—at Facebook; during his stormy tenure before that as Yahoo’s chief information security officer; and, still earlier, as an outside consultant for the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Tesla. Facebook declined to comment for this piece, other than to refer Yahoo Finance to a statement COO Sandberg issued when Stamos’s departure was first announced last April: “Alex has played an important role in how we approach security challenges and helped us build relationships with partners so we can better address the threats we face.

Source: finance.yahoo.com