Posted on 05/01/2018 7:59:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The accusations against the unnamed employee were lodged Sunday by Jackie Stokes, the founder of Spyglass Security.
"I've been made aware that a security engineer currently employed at Facebook is likely using privileged access to stalk women online," Stokes tweeted Sunday. "I have Tinder logs. What should I do with this information?"
Facebook said it was aware of the allegations and was investigating, noting that it couldn't comment on individual personnel matters.
"We maintain strict technical controls and policies to restrict employee access to user data," Facebook said in a statement. "Access is scoped by job function, and designated employees are only allowed to access the amount of information that's necessary to carry out their job responsibilities, such as responding to bug reports, account support inquiries, or valid legal requests.
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Stokes' accusations are reminiscent of ones lodged against Uber in 2014. A BuzzFeed journalist reported that a top executive at the ride-hailing startup used an internal feature to track her without her knowledge. The feature, known as "God View," was available to Uber employees and allows them to see logs of Uber customer activity.
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One of my best friends was stalked using Facebook.
She had to move to another State to get away from him.
Law Enforcement could have cared less.
Stalking? Isnt that what Facebook is for?
Yeah, good luck with that.
I had personally contacted senior Facebook execs, including Sheryl Sandberg and ex-Security Chief Joe Sullivan, with evidence of crimes in progress on their site.
They could not have cared less. Totally blew me off.
“Law Enforcement could have cared less.”
Well, yeah. You go on facebook and invite stalkers.
It doesn’t take company resources to stalk anyone.
We hired a middle management type that lasted for about three days.
Apart from his made up background, he started Facebook stalking a few co-irkers.
As a programmer, I worked in a small manufacturing plant with two other guys, back in the '70s. One day our new 18-year-old computer operator comes in boasting about his cleverness in finding out some girl's address by looking through the payroll files.
Our collective faces went white and in no uncertain terms told him never to pull that crap again or he'd be out in the street. The only reason we didn't report him was that he a raw kid and was unaware he was doing anything wrong. (He stopped.)
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