Facebook offered Conservative minister new data centre, jobs in exchange for easier data rules: reports – National

Facebook offered Conservative minister new data centre, jobs in exchange for easier data rules: reports – National

in Mar 04, 2019

[ad_1] Executives from Facebook offered to open a new data centre in Canada to get the former Conservative government to cut it a deal exempting data held on non-Canadians by the company from federal privacy regulations, British media reports suggest. Now, a Liberal MP is urging the parliamentary committee studying Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica[…]

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Trump’s new chief of staff is a Tea Party man who lobbied for a job ‘no one wanted,’ reports say – National

Trump’s new chief of staff is a Tea Party man who lobbied for a job ‘no one wanted,’ reports say – National

in Dec 15, 2018

[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump said “there were MANY people” who wanted to serve as the new White House chief of staff. But there could be only one out of an allegedly crowded field — and his name is Mick Mulvaney. He was among the few people who lobbied for the White House job that[…]

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