Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30k private Facebook photos

1659447091 81 points 31 comments April 07, 2026
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cramsession

I was at a party once with Facebook employees and they were telling stories about how they would spy on who visited who's profiles. They thought it was so funny, they could "tell" who had a crush on who. I deleted my account as soon as I got home. Vile company.

xgulfie

What is it that Zuck called people who trusted him? Oh right

xnx

This would've been an embarrassing security lapse in 2007. In 2024(?) it's despicable.

booleandilemma

What a creep.

dietr1ch

> found Meta to have inadvertently stored certain passwords of social media users on its internal systems without encryption, and fined it €91m (£75m) WTF? I thought that on 2010 already people were diligent enough to avoid even sending the password and instead just hashed it locally before even sending it.

burnt-resistor

Extremely doubtful to have occurred in the past 10 years. It's pretty much impossible to access anything on the graph without a business reason and managerial approval.

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