Lobbyist Niamh Sweeney who worked high up at Facebook/Meta is now the chief of Ireland’ data protection office.
NOYB repsonse:
According to reports in the Irish Times and RTE, Niamh Sweeney, a former senior Meta lobbyist, is set to join the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) as a commissioner in October. The DPC is the EU lead privacy regulator for most US Big Tech (such as Google, Microsoft or Meta) and was already notoriously pro-business. Prior to being entrusted with the responsibility of regulating US Big Tech, Sweeney spent more than 6 years at Meta. For 3.5 of those years, she was head of public policy at Facebook, Ireland, before becoming director of public policy for Europe at WhatsApp. With this appointment, the Irish government does not even pretend to care about enforcing EU law anymore.
Irish anti-trust lawsuits be like:
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Gail Slater 2.0 
This is something Cory Doctorow mentioned in his enshittification book tour talk with Lina Kahn. I didn’t realize it had already happened. This is absolutely atrocious. I have heard multiple journalists cal Mark Zuckerberg truly, and I think the term is warranted, but I keep forgetting how awful he is. It’s unbelievable that he continues to have such an acceptable public image.
There should be a law prohibiting this kind of thing. It is extremely common in the US too.
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