Facebook Privacy Chief Leaving to Run for California AG?

Chris Kelly, Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer who spent time this summer explaining Facebook’s privacy principles to Congress, is planning to announce his candidacy for the California Attorney General’s office, TechCrunch reports.

Kelly is certainly well connected in the state AG circles, having spent a lot of time over the last couple years working with state attorneys general to put together legislation that protects kids’ privacy online. Earlier this year, he helped get the KIDS Act of 2008 passed, which requires “all convicted sex offenders provide their email and instant messaging addresses as part of their registration with the National Sex Offender Registry.”

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