Which is to say... Google and Amazon?
I'd also say it's the norm among most Fortune 500 non-tech companies.
That’s not to say I disagree with you, but the data collected is (to me) orders of magnitude less sensitive.
*disclosure: I toil in the adtech mines.
While this is certainly true, you've admitted elsewhere not knowing anything specifically about either Google or Facebook's security process, so how can you compare them ? You seem to just "know" Facebook doesn't take security seriously (which is of course a ludicrous thing to say)
You already misquoted me once and I already replied to you. Why do you ignore it and do it again? Like I said: no, I never "admitted elsewhere not knowing anything specifically about either Google or Facebook's security process". You are misquoting me again just like you already did in [1], and it's quite improper that you choose to do this when I have already responded to you and called out your misrepresentation there. If you are looking for a response, see that post. If you are not, then please stop.
People like me or [1] have called you out because you keep contrasting Google and Facebook's internal security processes for no good reason, making definitive assertions like "[Google] takes security very seriously" [2], suggesting that Facebook doesn't and should do "Whatever Google does" [3]. And you're doing this not based on any specific knowledge of what the internal security process looks like at either company, but on your (flawed) perception of what engineering interns might or might not be able to do.
When people like esman1 who actually have that knowledge and context, volunteer to explain to you [4] some of the safeguards in place (and he told you the truth), instead of taking the point, you won't have any of what he says and keep going at it stubbornly.
I think this is the point where reasonable people stop arguing, and anyone else who cares can check your comments in this thread and make their own opinion.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675843 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675508 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675707 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675670
2012: Google staffs up ‘Red Team’
And this was literally just a Google away: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/24/google-red-team-...
The job even lists insider threat as part of their responsibility.
Yes, because Google is not your average company. It takes security extremely seriously... in fact it's about as awful of an example as you can give for a blanket statement you made about "most companies".