#Meta #Layoffs Included Employees Who #Monitored Risks to User #Privacy

While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk #auditors with more automated systems.
#ai #artificialintelligence

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/technology/meta-layoffs-user-privacy.html

North Carolina State University: Study Finds Blind Spot for Some Auditors Who Use Tech-Based Fraud Tests. “A new study finds that auditors of financial statements are less likely to follow up on ‘red flags’ identified by data analytics if the auditors did not play a role in developing the relevant analytical tests. The researchers also identified a low-cost intervention that significantly […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/13/north-carolina-state-university-study-finds-blind-spot-for-some-auditors-who-use-tech-based-fraud-tests/

Are all #ISO #auditors this fucking dumb or is it an act, to lure you into oversharing, revealing your process dirty laundry?

Srsly this guy (once again, 4/4 new auditor in as many #certification audits/inspections) is asking fundamentally basic questions that make me think "have you... ever... engineered anything in your life before? why are you an auditor."

Like explaining what a jira workflow is... or what a branch/merge strategy is. Fuck's sake.

🗨️ “As the independent #auditors of the EU’s finances and action, we are mindful that significant changes in how the #EUbudget is implemented will have an impact on how we can achieve our mission. While we support the aims of flexibility and simplification, it is essential that these efforts do not come at the expense of #accountability and #transparency.”

- Tony Murphy, President of the European Court of Auditors

🔗 Read the full report 👇
https://www.eca.europa.eu/EN/publications/AAR-2024

@HarriettMB

Good point, will it be one of the big four auditing companies taking on this anti-woke trumped up work at tax payers expense?

Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG).

Procurement of #auditors should be more widely questioned.

#DOGE Is Doing the Opposite of Government #Auditing

On this special episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about what federal #auditors actually do, and what they think of DOGE.
#audit #takedown #takeover #Musk #Trump

https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-doge-government-auditing/

‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal #Auditors Are Horrified by #DOGE

WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government #auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
#takedown #takeover

https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/