Over the weekend we started receiving tips about a new hire at Facebook’s D.C. office but as of today, we’ve found out that the new hire is Andrew Noyse, who was most recently at the National Journal. This is the third employee following Adam Conner and Tim Sparapani. While Facebook has a relatively small presence in comparison to Google, the company continues to expand and as the site matures, one would only expect its D.C. presence to expand as well.
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This morning, Washington Post writer Kim Hart reported on Facebook’s addition of a lobbyist to represent the company on issues primarily related to privacy. The new lobbyist doesn’t exactly comes from a position in which he argued against large internet company’s ownership of private data. As Hart writes, “Timothy Sparapani, former senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, argued that Internet companies have too much control over consumers’ data. The self-described ‘privacy zealot’ didn’t join Facebook until seven months ago because he was uneasy about revealing personal information on the site.”
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