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Facebook reportedly fired 52 employees who were caught spying on users
By Theo Wayt

July 13, 2021 | 3:08pm

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Using open access to user data through Facebook's internal systems, engineers were able to view women's location, private messages, deleted photos and more, according to a new report.AFP via Getty Images

Facebook fired 52 employees for abusing their access to the social network’s user data — including creepy men who obtained location data on women they were romantically interested in, according to a new report.

Using their access to troves of user data through Facebook’s internal systems, male engineers were able to view women’s locations, private messages, deleted photos and more, according to a bombshell report in the Telegraph.

In one instance described in the report, a Facebook engineer was on vacation with a woman in Europe when the two got into a fight and the woman wanted time alone. Using Facebook data, the engineer reportedly tracked her down at her new hotel and confronted her.

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Facebook security reportedly warned that many privacy invaders fell through a crack.
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In another case, an engineer reportedly used Facebook data to find out that a woman he was romantically interested in regularly visited Dolores Park in San Francisco, then used the information to go there and find her with her friends.

The majority of engineers who abused private information were men who looked up women they were interested in but did not confront 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.

While 52 employees were fired for such transgressions in 2014 and 2015, Facebook’s then-chief security officer Alex Stamos reportedly warned that hundreds of others may have slipped by unnoticed.


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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was allegedly upset when he found out about the widespread abuse of user information — and asked why no one else at the company had thought to tighten engineers’ access to such data.

But Zuckerberg himself had designed the company’s data access system and refused to change it as the company grew, according to the report.

“At various times in Facebook’s history there were paths we could have taken, decisions we could have made, which would have limited, or even cut back on, the user data we were collecting,” one longtime Facebook employee told Frankel and Kang.

“But that was antithetical to Mark’s DNA,” the source said. “Even before we took those options to him, we knew it wasn’t a path he would choose.”

“We’ve always had zero tolerance for abuse and have fired every single employee ever found to be improperly accessing data,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “Since 2015, we’ve continued to strengthen our employee training, abuse detection and prevention protocols. We’re also continuing to reduce the need for engineers to access some types of data as they work to build and support our services.”

Another bombshell excerpt from the book published last week in the New York Times said that Zuckerberg and Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’s relationship soured during the Trump era because Sandberg’s Obama administration connections were suddenly useless.

Hours after that report was published online, Zuckerberg and Sandberg conveniently strolled in front of news cameras at the Allen & Co. Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Facebook vehemently denied that the Times report was accurate.
 
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zuck sells your information to advertisers and govt entities and gets paid billions.

The actually had the wrong parts bolded so I had to edit, but the workers were spying on women and using the info to track them down.
 

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They fired the people doing the most base-level spying as scapegoats for the S-tier spying theyre also doing
 

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Facebook biggest porn distributor in the planets
 

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There's no REAL solution, at this point. :yeshrug:


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There's too many variables to account for. Too many remedial nggas, runnin the streets, with mental issues. Too many egos, and too much insecurity. Certain individuals will, never fall in line, and everyone wants to be a boss/leader.
 
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