Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has announced he will be leaving the company and he will shortly be taking a position at Stanford University as a teacher and researcher. The company has been losing several heads of departments recently; thought to be linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, including their head of policy and communications and chief legal officer.
Stamos said in his Facebook announcement of the news that that he will be taking a role of professor and researcher where he will be working on a new group called Information Warfare.
“This fall, I am very excited to launch a course teaching hands-on offensive and defensive techniques and to contribute to the new cybersecurity master’s specialty at [the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies],” Stamos wrote.
Stamos has previously mentioned that leaving a company with major policy disagreement would be out of his nature but then he also left Yahoo when it was absorbed by Oath.Whispers of his leaving originally spread in March when his disagreement over Facebooks disclosures over Russian state-sponsored information, leading him to announce at the time that “despite the rumours, I’m still fully involved with my work at Facebook”.
Stamos is not only the official that has left the company but Chief Legal Officer Colin Stretch also announced the departure after working many years at the company.
There is no official announcement from the company about this matter but when one of our representatives asked the company about the Stamos’s comment they have been redirected to Stamos’ Facebook post.
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