FedditMeta employee in London accused of downloading 30,000 private Facebook images
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And I just wonder how many times this has happened before, but gone unnoticed or swept under the rug.
When the NSA does it it’s fine.
When Facebook does it to train it’s models it’s fine.
When individual employees do it it’s fine until the government notices and raises a stink. Then it’s a problem.
Something in this article strikes me, and that is the “download” part. Downloading this data was protected by internal security checks… But what about accessing the data without downloading it? Is that fine?? How much do these employees actually have access to? Most users probably haven’t enabled the message encryption.
Snapchat had similar news about misuse
These are the companies we’re supposed to trust they’ll implement Chat Control or similarly intrusive technologies properly.
This seems like oddly quaint news. My assumption for years has been that they are all doing the same thing.
This isn’t even the first time this has happened.
Seems people have to relearn this lesson every few years:
If you don’t want something to be public, don’t put it on the internet. “Privacy” controls from these companies fail regularly, sometimes by design. If you put something on the internet, it will be public eventually.
Can’t he just say he’s using them for training his AI? That seemed to work for Meta.
WTF is wrong with people uploading private things on Facebook?
Most Facebook users don’t know any better.
Still, it’s like hiring a well known repeat sex offender to babysit your kids.
They don’t know that this is a common problem. The vast majority of daily users have no knowledge that Meta is evil. They’re probably not even aware of Meta as a company.
It’s easy to think that this stuff is common knowledge, but just by being here you’re likely way more informed about technology, politics, and privacy than 90+ percent of people.
If you keep your photos on someone else’s computer, you get what you deserve.