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Facebook Is Investigating a Claim That an Employee Used His Position To Stalk Women (vice.com) 61

Posted by msmash from the god-mode dept.
Facebook is investigating a claim that an employee potentially used access granted by their job to stalk women online, the social media giant confirmed in a statement to Motherboard on Monday. From the report: "Although we can't comment on any individual personnel matters, we are aware of the situation and investigating," a Facebook spokesperson wrote in an email. The claim came from Jackie Stokes, founder of Spyglass Security, in a tweet posted Monday. "I've been made aware that a security engineer currently employed at Facebook is likely using privileged access to stalk women online. I have Tinder logs. What should I do with this information?" Stokes' tweet read. In a follow-up tweet, Stokes wrote multiple senior Facebook employees had reached out over the claim. Stokes told Motherboard in a Twitter direct message that she provided the relevant details to Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer.
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  • Zuck is F***ed (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:25PM (#56533233)
    They caught him

    • Re: Zuck is F***ed (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      I thought thatâ(TM)s what Facebook was for.
      Confused now

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        I'm sure snap chat was developed to induce girls to send revealing pictures of themselves that "disappeared" at the destination after a set period of time (but got squired away on Snap Chat's servers for later ogling by the admins)

  • wrong (Score:3)

    by iggymanz ( 596061 ) on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:27PM (#56533247)

    also contact the FBI if across state lines, your state police if inside the side

  • The only thing that would surprise me here to find out is if this person was actually one of them and not just their scapegoat.

  • It's not true! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Gravis Zero ( 934156 ) on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:29PM (#56533261)

    I did not use my position to stalk women! One turned out to be a really effeminate man. ;)

  • Shocked (Score:5, Insightful)

    by JaneTheIgnorantSlut ( 1265300 ) on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:30PM (#56533267)
    I'm shocked - shocked to find that stalking is going on there.

    • Re:Shocked (Score:4)

      by alvinrod ( 889928 ) on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:42PM (#56533571)
      I'd be shocked if it wasn't more pervasive. I've hard several co-workers use the phrase "stalking him/her on Facebook" or something to that extent in a manner of jest that suggests there's a bit more truth to their statement than may be appropriate. I suspect that the great injustice here as that this employee had much better access to stalking functionalities than other users, which is clearly viewed as unfair.

      I suggest burying something in your social media persona that normal users don't have access to which can tip you off to anyone who posses information they shouldn't. Works equally well for government types and pathetic stalkers alike.

  • Anyone surprised? (Score:3)

    by AlanObject ( 3603453 ) on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:30PM (#56533271)

    If this hasn't happened multiple times at Facebook I would be surprised.

    The NSA had this kind of goings on back in the Bush years. Nothing new.

    • How much would you bet that the person they caught doing this was also previously tasked with fulfilling those requests for the NSA?

  • I don't believe this for a second... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Kenja ( 541830 ) on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:49PM (#56533347)
    There's no WAY it's "an" employee.

    • There's no WAY it's "an" employee.

      LOL, I see what you did there...

      Why is anybody surprised? I thought the initial motivating idea behind this social media thing being developed was to stalk women. After all, it was developed by a couple of college guys in their dorm room. What do you THINK they where up to? It sure wasn't loud drinking parties, at least not all the time... Somebody was developing code now and then and what could motivate a couple of college guys to do that?

  • Let's be realistic - most likely the so called "stalking" is someone reading someone's profile info who they're to timid to even talk to in person.
  • Only one employee does this?

  • Most of the users on Facebook use it to stalk other people.

  • What the employees name Mark Zuckerberg?

    I thought that was the entire point of FB.

  • Today's Anti-Facebook news draws on previously unexplored territory.
    Nice to see that this assassination is getting creative.

  • Come on now, we all know stalking happens from the inside all the time, and FB shares their data with three-letter agencies that do the same.

    Facebook is just trying to do virtue signalling, by suggesting said stalking behavior is exceptional and will not be tolerated; they have had really bad press lately and they desperately need to counter-balance it.

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