Former Facebook lawyer calls latest NSA revelations “shocking”

Facebook’s former top lawyer and chief privacy officer said he found “shocking” the scale of online data collection being conducted by the National Security Agency.

“It’s not shocking that the government or law enforcement is doing some monitoring but the scale that we’re seeing it today is pretty shocking,” Chris Kelly said. he said that before he joined Facebook, the company -- which at the time he joined had only 2.5 million users -- had only a rudimentary privacy policy. “When I got there, one issue we addressed was that we would get requests from the government for data,” he said. “There are situations where the government has legitimate reasons to request data, for terrorism investigations, but that has to be a very transparent process, as transparent as you can make it.”