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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.
Should this evidence have been provided to authorities?
Just how far did this stalking go? Did he ever act on any of the information? Make unrequested contact or show up on doorsteps?
This sort of abuse of power *should* get him fired. Depending on his other actions, it should also get him arrested. If someone in the medical or financial fields use their access to someones private information (e.g. home address or phone number), then they'd get slapped with some "hacking" or "unlawful computer access" charges. What gives?
Facebook Fires Employee Who Allegedly Used Data Access To Stalk Women
Cue Sheryl Sandberg doing walk of shame out to parking lot with box of her stuff.
Who watches the watchmen?
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.
Problem solved! Right? BTW, I like these new cuddly Facebook advertisements you guys are running! I totally trust you will do the right thing from now on!
"unfollow means no!"
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
You had a keyboard? Luxury! I had to hand-crank my own 5V signal and pulse data directly into memory as ones and zeroes. And this without any lights in a cardboard shack in the rain.
To take your point a little further: they're completely okay with the data being readily available to any hypothetical pervert with internal system access, but feign indignation when the content originators or shareholders become aware of it. This is almost certainly not an isolated incident.
...when everything is a crime, everyone is a criminal.
So, one guy from FB stalks someone -- fire him!
But when a company (advertisement) stalks me across the internet -- that's business!
-- "Oh. This guy again."
This guy was just TESTING out the new dating functionality of Facebook, prior to its release!!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
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Why do you think this is a problem? Employees at every other dating service are doing it, FB is just making sure to get rid of the ones dumb enough to get caught now.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Wasn't FB built to stalk women..?
+5V?! Luxury! I was stuck with ECL memory; it isn't enough just to keep your voltage between -3 and -4.6V, you also have to turn the crank at an exact speed to maintain the current.
Have gnu, will travel.
Isn't Facebook one of those companies that need to be told "Delete means delete!"?
Dude, they are slurping information about you before you even sign up. Shadow profiles is what they call it. If the government did it they'd call it your dossier.
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