Big Tech companies spend big money to keep their executives safe. Wired looked into the cost and uncovered interesting figures.
Apple spent about $300,000 on Tim Cook’s personal security last year. Amazon and Oracle each spent about $1.6 million for Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison. Alphabet spent less than $1 million to protect its top brass.
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook’s security detail costs $7.3 million a year, or about $20,000 a day. But that cost is expected to rise to almost $1 million a month in 2019.
Why so much? Well, Cambridge Analytical, fake news, fake ads, accounts hacked, cover-ups and more, to start.
Hey, Mark, here’s an idea — treat people and their data right, and you’ll save about $9.7 million a year.
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