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I am completely shocked by "her" casual admission that Facebook employees have in the past logged in as other users on a whim, and potentially continue to do so
by seldo 17y ago
I am completely shocked by "her" casual admission that Facebook employees have in the past logged in as other users on a whim, and potentially continue to do so via database access and user-switching.
In some countries -- for instance the UK -- data protection laws mean that viewing personal data without a specific business reason is itself illegal, even if that data is not manipulated (this may be why the new user switching system requires a reason to be entered). Even if this casual viewing was done before they opened a data center in the UK, this seems a pretty shocking admission to make so casually.
- seiji 17y agoThat used to be on their job postings. "Get inside information about your friends! See all their private details!" (or something similar) I think their foster mother has tried to make them grow up a little.
- gaius 17y agoI am completely shocked by "her" casual admission that Facebook employees have in the past logged in as other users on a whim I doubt there's any company that has user data that this doesn't happen at. I bet it happened a hundred years ago at mail order companies. A claim that it had never happened somewhere would be suspicious.