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Facebook Fires Employee Who Allegedly Used Data Access To Stalk Women (vice.com)

After a member of the information security community provided evidence to Facebook's chief information security officer, the company has terminated a security engineer who allegedly used their work position to stalk women online. From a report: On Monday, Motherboard reported that Facebook was investigating a claim that one of its employees used access to data granted by their job to stalk women online. Facebook has since terminated the employee, Facebook confirmed to Motherboard on Tuesday, coincidentally shortly after the social media giant announced its upcoming dating service. "We are investigating this as a matter of urgency. It's important that people's information is kept secure and private when they use Facebook," Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief information security officer, told Motherboard in a statement.

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  1. Only one employee fired by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Throughout Facebook and the whole data tracking "industry" there is power for thousands of employees to stalk, and the majority are getting away with it.