Evan Spiegel on Facebook: ‘We would really appreciate it if they copied our data protection practices’

Evan Spiegel on Facebook: ‘We would really appreciate it if they copied our data protection practices’

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/29/17407530/evan-spiegel-interview-code-conference-2018

Evan Spiegel publicly addressed Facebook’s longstanding practice of copying his company’s products Tuesday, joking that Facebook should model Snap’s approach to collecting less information about its users. “We would really appreciate it if they copied our data protection practices also,” Spiegel said Tuesday night at the Code Conference in Southern California.

Interviewer Kara Swisher had asked Spiegel how he felt about Facebook’s decision to copy key Snapchat innovations including ephemeral 24-hour stories and augmented reality lenses. Spiegel first said that his wife, Miranda Kerr, cared more about it than he did. (Kerr said she was “appalled” by Facebook’s moves in an interview last year.) But then he brought up data privacy — months after the bruising global scandal involving Cambridge Analytica — drawing a huge laugh from the crowd.