Possibly this is the biggest deal of all: > and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees Any time we use a big Web service we understand that there must

Possibly this is the biggest deal of all: > and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees Any time we use a big Web service we understand that there must some employee at that service who could see our activity, but we expect the number of employees who could see our data must be strictly limited. Thousands of Facebook employees could see user passwords? If true, that is an amazing number. I know that when I use Gmail, there must be some employee at Google who could potentially see what I've written. But I've also read that Google has strict controls about who could see my email, and the activity of their employee is logged. What Facebook allowed sounds serious, if only because they were so lackadaisical about enforcing strict policies around data access.