Facebook Fired Dozens Over Abusing Access to User Data, New Book Says

  • Facebook fired 52 people from 2014 to August 2015 over abusing access to user data, a new book says.
  • One person used data to find a woman he was traveling with who had left him after a fight, the book says.
  • Changes to retention of such data were “antithetical to Mark’s DNA,” one employee told the authors.

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A Facebook engineer abused employee access to user data to track down a woman who had left him…

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