Jacinte Faria Kirkland has been promoted from head of operations, U.S., to managing director of Stink Studios, Americas. She will oversee its Buenos Aires and United States divisions and report directly to CEO, Mark Pytlik.
In May 2020, Stink Studios opened its newest production outpost in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A new mindset of collaboration, regardless of proximity, led to the merging of the New York, Los Angeles and Buenos Aires teams into Stink Studios Americas. This new era is guided by Stink Studios’ first-ever company values, written by Pytlik: craft, digital fluency, positivity, honesty, adaptability, humanity and equity. Stink Studios is committed to putting its people first, so creatives and creativity can thrive together, which Faria Kirkland will foster.
“This new role comes with its own new challenges,” said Faria Kirkland. “With the merging of our offices in New York, Los Angeles and Buenos Aires, the number of team members I’m overseeing has significantly increased. I’m focused on preserving while growing our culture so that we can continue to produce beautiful and useful work for our clients and (selfishly) ourselves.”
In her new capacity, Faria Kirkland will manage nearly 100 team members across the U.S. and South America. In her previous role as head of operations, U.S. she helped onboard Stink’s Buenos Aires operation and devised clarity around how the teams showed up and worked efficiently in an asynchronous and remote working environment. Now as managing director, her main focus will be on talent recruitment and business development.
Faria Kirkland joined Stink Studios in 2015 as an executive producer and has meaningfully impacted the creative studio since, rising to director of production then managing director for Los Angeles. In 2021, she managed the Los Angeles and New York offices as head of operations, U.S. She successfully merged both offices into a unified, remote U.S. operation, while onboarding the new Buenos Aires division. Her optimism and strong intuition laid the groundwork for Stink Studios’ most successful year since 2016.
South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users
South Korea's privacy watchdog on Tuesday fined social media company Meta 21.6 billion won ($15 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with thousands of advertisers.
It was the latest in a series of penalties against Meta by South Korean authorities in recent years as they increase their scrutiny of how the company, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, handles private information.
Following a four-year investigation, South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission concluded that Meta unlawfully collected sensitive information about around 980,000 Facebook users, including their religion, political views and whether they were in same-sex unions, from July 2018 to March 2022.
It said the company shared the data with around 4,000 advertisers.
South Korea's privacy law provides strict protection for information related to personal beliefs, political views and sexual behavior, and bars companies from processing or using such data without the specific consent of the person involved.
The commission said Meta amassed sensitive information by analyzing the pages the Facebook users liked or the advertisements they clicked on.
The company categorized ads to identify users interested in themes such as specific religions, same-sex and transgender issues, and issues related to North Korean escapees, said Lee Eun Jung, a director at the commission who led the investigation on Meta.
"While Meta collected this sensitive information and used it for individualized services, they made only vague mentions of this use in their data policy and did not obtain specific consent," Lee said.
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