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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by esman1 on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:28AM (#16676605)
To be fair, at least at FB (I can't speak to Google or Apple or Amazon):

1. Accessing someone's data when it's not mission critical to your work means you're fired on the spot. This is drilled into new engineers over and over.

2. Privacy-related issues are escalated to the highest severity immediately (on par with data centers being down, etc.). I think the question in this whole debate is where you draw the line for this kind of issue, and what's an issue and what's a feature.

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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by mehrdadn on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:56AM (#16676707)
> Accessing someone's data when it's not mission critical to your work means you're fired on the spot. This is drilled into new engineers over and over.

This means they are capable of doing it and are merely punished afterwards, right? Not to mention that I would imagine getting fired in exchange for viewing private data could be quite a worthwhile 'transaction' for some people in some cases.

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