Guest Lecture - Mr. Alex Stamos CSO of Facebook

Mr. Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer for Facebook, spoke to cadets in EECS courses about the security challenges faced by Facebook in an age of increased hacking attempts as well as the social and ethical impacts of their security efforts. Of particular note was his discussion of the needs for technology companies to balance legal requirements to follow the laws of their host countries with the need to protect their user's privacy and how that is done at Facebook.