<story><title>Facebook, Google Fund Nonprofits Shaping Privacy Debate</title><url>https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/facebook-google-donate-heavily-to-privacy-advocacy-groups</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FillardMillmore</author><text>This article accentuates the need to always look for the source of the funding when it comes to non-profits, think tanks, and &amp;quot;public interest&amp;quot; groups. Unfortunately, the goals of these groups are not always as transparent as their names would have you believe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>programmertote</author><text>The same goes for all UNGOs and NGOs that operate around the world for various humanitarian causes. I have interned at places like World Vision, World Concern, and Save the Children; my sister has worked for almost three years at a well-known French NGO that operates in my home country (in SE Asia). A few other people I know work for various non-profit orgs like UNICEF and UNOCHA etc.&lt;p&gt;We notice one consistent thing: these purpose of organizations&amp;#x2F;institutions isn&amp;#x27;t as simple as &amp;quot;serve the best for the native population that they are supposed to save from natural&amp;#x2F;economic&amp;#x2F;humanitarian disaster&amp;quot;. The need (say, for regional&amp;#x2F;program directors) to find the next funding to keep the project going trumps EVERY OTHER altruistic purpose. Also, these program directors don&amp;#x27;t stay for longer than 2-3 years (let alone getting to know the native population they are trying to help) and most of them are always trying to get in on the next action&amp;#x2F;conflict in another country, and&amp;#x2F;or to simply move to a better pasture (a more developed country). The management in these non-profit orgs--such as save the children, world vision, UNICEF--are always whitewashed (I do not intend this to come out negatively, but have to keep it real here) and they rarely promote native workers to have a say in things that matter (although native workers are the ones who have to do the day-to-day, on-the-field hard work). On Facebook, there has been a growing resentment by native workers toward these &amp;#x27;foreigners of ruling hierarchy&amp;#x27; that work for non-profits (while taking up most of the salary+benefits and wasting donation money). I don&amp;#x27;t know how far it will go and am interested to see it out.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook, Google Fund Nonprofits Shaping Privacy Debate</title><url>https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/facebook-google-donate-heavily-to-privacy-advocacy-groups</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FillardMillmore</author><text>This article accentuates the need to always look for the source of the funding when it comes to non-profits, think tanks, and &amp;quot;public interest&amp;quot; groups. Unfortunately, the goals of these groups are not always as transparent as their names would have you believe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmos62</author><text>Sad truth. I&amp;#x27;d like to see something label itself as a public-interest group and be able to trust it immediately, but it&amp;#x27;s not as simple as that.</text></comment>