Anonymous ID: cc037e Oct. 7, 2021, 8:45 a.m. No.14739718   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9731

They are nothing if not hypocritical…

 

A tech and telecom staffer for Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced she is leaving her staff to join Apple, the news coming just hours after the Minnesota Democrat slammed Big Tech for having “literally hired so many people” in Washington, DC.

 

April Jones, the deputy legislative director and counsel for Klobuchar on tech and telecom issues, will be joining Apple as a senior government affairs policy counsel, according to Politico.

 

The announcement came Wednesday, one day after Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen spoke in front of the Senate Commerce Committee’s consumer protection subcommittee, blasting her former employer and calling for government regulators to step in.

 

During her questioning of Haugen, Klobuchar, who works as a chair of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, posited that Congress hasn’t done enough to update federal privacy laws, pointing to Big Tech hiring lobbyists as the reason why.

 

“We have not done anything to update our privacy laws in this country — our federal privacy laws — nothing, zilch, in any major way,” the Democrat said. “Why? Because there are lobbyists around every single corner of this building that have been hired by the tech industry.”

 

https://nypost.com/2021/10/06/klobuchar-aide-joins-apple-hours-after-senator-calls-out-big-tech-hiring-lobbyists