To Facebook disbanded a few years ago, 52 workers to abuse access to user data of the social network, including men found women location data for which were interested.
Using their access to a lot of user data through Facebook’s internal systems, according to the New York Post, male engineers could see women’s sites, personal messages, deleted photos and more, according to a bomb report. Telegraph.
In one case, a Facebook engineer was on vacation with a woman in Europe and at one point they got into a fight. The woman wanted to spend time alone and the man used Facebook data to locate her in the new hotel where she had found refuge.
In another incident, an engineer used evidence and discovered that a woman he was interested in enjoyed visiting Dolores Park in San Francisco. Use the data to go and find her.
The majority of engineers who misused private information were men who were interested in women but did not deal with them in person, according to the report, which is an excerpt from an upcoming book by New York Times reporters Sheera Frankel and Cecelia Kang.
- The company that built roads and buried under it any worker who died
- 35-year-old man arrested raping a minor
- Three police officers prosecuted for death of a man in March 2020
While 52 employees were fired for such violations in 2014 and 2015, the then head of Facebook security, Alex Stamos, warned that there may be hundreds more who had “slipped”.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is extremely unhappy with the fact and asked to know why none of the company had thought of restricting employees’ access to such data.
Of course, according to the report that was published, the security system of Facebook was designed by Zuckerberg himself, who did not want to change it, as the years passed.
From 2015 onwards, Facebook claims to have taken important steps to better protect its users. “We have always had zero tolerance for abusive behavior and we fired without a second thought any employee who misused our users’ data,” a company spokesman said recently.
“From 2015 onwards, we have strengthened the training of our employees, as well as our protocols for detecting and preventing any infringing behaviors on their part. We also continuously reduce the access to the data of the users that the employees who work in the creation and the support of our services must have “.
