Backers of California Privacy Ballot Measure Hand-Deliver Letter to Facebook

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Mary Ross, president of Californians for Consumer Privacy, holds a letter she attempted to deliver on April 9, 2018, to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg asking her to support a privacy ballot measure. Photo by Marisa Lagos/KQED

By Marisa Lagos, The California Report

Mary Stone Ross left her Oakland home Monday morning and drove to Menlo Park in search of Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg.

After 10 minutes of driving around the tech giant’s campus, Ross found a place to park near Building 20. She marched inside and asked if she could hand-deliver a letter to Sandberg.

About five minutes later, a man at the front desk apologized, saying Sandberg and her staff were in and out of meetings. He told her that for security reasons, they couldn’t accept the letter and to use snail mail instead.

Read the complete story at The California Report.

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