A Facebook engineer abused access to user data to track down woman

Re:A Facebook engineer abused access to user data to track d... by pm90 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @10:20AM (#27833308)

There’s a difference between having an audit trail and actually using it. I would be interested to know how often Facebook analyzes this data and actually fires people for improper usage.

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Re:A Facebook engineer abused access to user data to track d... by mtmail on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @10:23AM (#27833351)

> I would be interested to know how often Facebook analyzes this data and actually fires people for improper usage.

From the article: Facebook fired 52 people from 2014 to August 2015 for abusing access to user data

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Re:A Facebook engineer abused access to user data to track d... by flak48 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @10:22AM (#27833334)

The article does mention more than 50 people being fired for it between 2014 and Aug 2015

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Re:A Facebook engineer abused access to user data to track d... by emtel on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @10:23AM (#27833348)

I don’t have proof, but we were told that every access of sensitive data was actively audited. It’s very rare to need to do this for your job, so I don’t imagine it’s a huge volume of events to be audited.

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