Facebook Staffed Up D.C. Public Affairs Office Well Before Recent Senate Privacy Concerns

Facebook is currently facing charges from Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) that the social network does not respect user’s privacy.

Schumer told CNN, in a segment that also featured Nick O’Neill from our sibling blog AllFacebook.com, “the fact that you have to opt out, and the fact that the opt out procedure is complicated, clearly means that people have less control.” He was referring to Facebook sharing user data with third party sites.

Issues like this could be one reason why Facebook staffed up its D.C.