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Facebook Exposes Employee Data To Terrorists (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Guardian is reporting that Facebook accidentally exposed the personal information of the moderators that remove terrorist content to the groups that posted that very content. From the article it looks like 6 of them actually had their profiles viewed. From the article, "The security lapse affected more than 1,000 workers across 22 departments at Facebook who used the company's moderation software to review and remove inappropriate content from the platform, including sexual material, hate speech and terrorist propaganda."
What are Facebook's responsibilities here?
we don't need no stinking responsibilities.
Hahaha Facebook is scum!
In my opinion, as Facebook opened these persons to such a risk, they should assume full and complete liability for anything that comes from it.
I'd say Facebook might want to look into changing the identities of these people that were exposed. I honestly would be a little scared right now if somebody I was censoring now knew my personal information.
To relocate all those folks via a witness protection like program
Facebook is a business. Its clients are sponsors. Its users are the products. The terrorists are just one of billions of products sold to sponsors.
So its responsibility here is to optimise the targeting of advertising relevant to terrorists and supporters of terrorism so as to maximise click-thru and conversion.
Anything else is just people fantasising about Facebook being some sort of public forum.
How much will it take for people to finally get a clue about how bad Facebook is?
Ratting people out to the NSA is bad enough. But now, ratting them out to terrorists? Wow, that's a new low. And they were even doing a service that supposedly makes Facebook better, for members and investors.
Ugh.
Maybe they're just trying to one-up Uber.
They are one of the three biggest advertising companies on Earth (Google and Yahoo! being one and three respectively) and they are rich and above the law.
See, corporations are people until it comes to criminal prosecution. "Oh, we'll fine them millions! And they just let the stockholders eat it (Ahahahahahah) and the stock goes up because they got off with just the cost of a month's worth of toilet paper.
User data has been exposed already for years now
I find it utterly strange that the same profiles that a moderator would use in their official duties would be somehow linked to their own Facebook profile. That seems to me like a huge security oversight. Paid mods should ALWAYS have separate credentials from their own personal stuff. What happens when FB fires someone? They just change their FB acct to non-admin? Seems like a huge problem if there are any rollbacks.
No. You gotta keep shit separated. I get that most forums around typically associate user accts with privs... but that's bad policy if your system is going to be targeted. Better to have secret hidden mod accts that can be audited internally but do not show up externally... and can't be accessed remotely. Remote mod accts should have extra layers of auditing and security as well.
I'm probably preaching to the choir, but FB never seemed like a very talented company, or at best their amoral practices will always be to their disadvantage, as we see here.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Is that the employees even had a personal Facebook account to begin with instead of an Employees Only type of account that doesn't have any personal info on them.
It's now prohibited under Facebook's Terms of Service to kill, maim, or place a hit on any member of Facebook's staff.
Violators are subject to having their accounts suspended or deleted without notice.
Ask Kathy Griffin.
Who is Seth Rich?
Facebook is too big to be held responsible for any harm this case of reckless endangerment may cause, at least in the USA. Perhaps, if any European employees were endangered, there will be some EU agency investigating the matter, but then heaps of butthurt Yanks will whine about how those filthy Eurocommies dare demand that a Holy Corporation abide by the law.
This is what happens when a large amount of something valuable is available from one convenient location. when are people going to stop sending sensitive data to these guys. They send our data to various state police department (and probably federal+ groups as well) who are reportedly using that data for a face recognition system deemed illegal in two states (and the police don't seem to care the state laws make it's use illegal), marketing companies, and probably anyone who will pay Facebook enough. There is no real privacy on Facebook as it was never a priority. When are we all going to learn.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
Would be a start.
This seems an easy civil action. Fault from Facebook is obvious and documented, damages are huge. That should attract a lot of lawyers.
Mark Zuckerberg is an avowed friend and supporter of Islam terrorists, a hater of Legal USA Citizens and an enemy of the United States of America.
Facebook is just a tool for Muslim and Islam terror operations world wide.
The FBI?
Americans have Democratic policies everywhere. From ACA which most American's didn't want to "Sanctuary" Cities and States which ignore and fight against Federal Law and the US Constitution. Gun-Free Zones are a product of Democratic control, Democrats push back against school choice, and have propagated SJWs, BLM, antifa, and other groups who behave both violently and criminally.
Most of us on the R side just want to be left the f&*k alone and want Government to be minimized. Pretty much what we are supposed to be guaranteed in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. The far left believes that Government can solve all of our problems and should be pervasive.
Lets not forget that the Democratic party wanted slavery and fought a Civil war over it. The Democratic Party voted for Jim Crow laws, and still promotes identity politics and tribalism. The first Republican President fought to rid the US of slavery, and the Republican Party voted to end discrimination, tests for voting, and voted fpr racial equality in the 60s. And before you talk about the "bit switch", that do some homework and find out that it was exactly 1 person who changed sides.
You are living in a delusional lie if you believe all your problems are from Republicans.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
So, judging by the comments so far, all you have to do is say "terrorists", and then all of slashdot becomes a fan of faceless, unaccountable censorship.
Let's all join hands and create a world where content is filtered by the anonymous minions of a few megacorporations, and you absolutely do not have the right to face your accuser, challenge the decision, or even know the rules by which you are being judged.
The company that excels at collecting personal information for the sole purpose of disseminating that personal information is for some reason embarrassed that the personal information of its employees somehow leaked out while at the same time not feeling bad at all that everybody's personal information is bought and sold like cattle.
I know somebody who works for a gov't security agency whose FB account got taken over by an Egyptian hacking group.
Numerous reports to FB were met with essentially a "looks like it's all fixed now" form letter, and their article on what to do if your account is hacked fails the CRC check (on the "my account is hacked" section, it just links back to the page you're already on).
The have no proper way to contact in case of any major issue, be it terrorism, hacking, suicide, illegal sales or whatever. All you get is form letters.