Weeks after Chris Kelly, Facebook’s ex-Chief Privacy Officer condemned Facebook over their Instant Personalization service, he has become the victim of a political attack ad, blaming him for releasing “your private information”. It’s a pretty questionable advertisement and borders on false accusations. It’s a sign that the California attorney general race has just turned dirty.
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Facebook’s former Chief Privacy Officer, Chris Kelly, made a public statement against Facebook’s new “Instant Personalization” service, days after the program came under attack from a number of Senators. In a public statement, Chris Kelly distanced himself from Facebook saying, “Facebook’s recent changes to its privacy policy and practices with regard to data sharing occurred after I left the company.”
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Chris Kelly, the Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook, has invested $2 million of his own money in his race to become the California Attorney General. In December of 2008, rumors began circulating that Kelly would run for Attorney General. By April of last year, it had become official. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Kelly had to make the cash drop to stand out from a Democratic field full of people with name recognition.”
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Chris Kelly, Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer, formally announced today that he has formed a committee to explore running for California Attorney General in 2010. No, Chris isn’t formally announcing himself as a candidate but this is essentially a step in that direction. Chris has also recorded a video which announces the creation of an exploratory committee (which we’ve also embedded below).
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The politics of Facebook are nothing compared to the politics of the state of California, but as Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer, Chris Kelly has had plenty of experience in dealing with the social network’s ongoing negotiations with Attorneys General around the U.S.  According to TechCrunch, Kelly plans to run for the office of Attorney General of California in the 2010 election as a Democrat, whereupon he would leave Facebook mid-2009 in order to run his campaign.
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