Meta Curbs Privacy Teams’ Sway Over Product Releases

Meta Platforms has erected guardrails around how it develops new products over the past decade to better protect the privacy of its more than 3 billion users following high-profile breaches. Now executives are lowering those guardrails so the company can release products more quickly.

Among the changes, privacy teams will have less authority to delay product launches. Instead, product teams will have the final say over what privacy risks are acceptable and whether a product should be released, according to an internal post viewed by The Information.