Meta’s Project Nido Team Used Legal Privilege Designations to Shield Safety Records

Instagram made ‘attorney-client privilege’ swag hats for employees who concealed kids safety docs in court battle

A photo of the so-called “swag” hats surfaced in documents released in California federal court where a coalition of school districts have accused Meta of fueling social media addiction. The “a/c/priv” hats were made available to employees working on Instagram’s Teen Accounts team – known internally as “Project Nido.”

SCIENCE & TECH: Instagram made ‘attorney-client privilege’ swag hats for employees who concealed kids safety docs in court battle

Instagram allegedly made hats for its employees with the phrase “attorney-client privilege” – an “utterly sick” joke about using legal loopholes to conceal explosive legal documents about kids social media addiction, according to critics. A photo of the company’s “swag” hats – baseball caps that displayed the legal lingo “a/c priv,” shorthand for “attorney-client privilege” — surfaced this week in California federal court, where a coalition of s…

Meta’s Project Nido Team Used Legal Privilege Designations to Shield Safety Records

Unsealed court documents from an ongoing multi-state lawsuit against Meta have focused on the “Project Nido” team—the internal group responsible for Instagram’s Teen Accounts. The litigation centers on Meta’s use of attorney-client privilege, a legal protection intended to keep communications between a client and their lawyer confidential. Project Nido was the internal codename for the team that developed and launched Instagram’s “Teen Accounts”…

Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures

Meta's lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits over alleged harm to teens' safety and mental health. Lawyers suing the company said this week that the label has been applied far too broadly, while pointing to a recently unsealed document […]

Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures | #childsafety | #kids | #chldern | #parents | #schoolsafey - National Cyber Security Consulting

The lawyers suing Meta argue the Project Nido (an internal name for the Teen Accounts team) swag is part of “culture of privilege abuse at Meta” aimed at keeping the research it’s conducted internally on teen harm out of the public eye, an issue that Mark Zuckerberg discussed after internal data on Instagram’s effects leaked […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed!