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When I worked at Facebook some years ago, my privacy was invaded by a fellow employee in a retaliatory act after I provided critical feedback about the team’s work. this person instructed a contractor subordinate to access my personal travel history, which included my home address and times and locations of all my lyft usage.

HR investigated and found nothing wrong despite many people at the company protesting this abuse of power.

How often do you reckon things like this happen at facebook but don’t get any traction?

You are remembering incorrectly. It was a retaliatory measure after surfacing negative feedback about the transport team.

Since lyft profiles were connected to our personal account they were able to see my home address and personal trips. Not my expense reports.

It was an overreach of power that shouldn’t have happened, and when I confronted the individual he replied that he accessed my data because he was “just curious”. Inappropriate. He was clearly trying to “catch me” using company lyft codes after hours per his original request to his subordinate.

The fact that he asked me for coffee so he could “explain and talk about it” also felt super gross.

Accessing someone’s data as part of your scope of work WITHOUT proper business justification is wrong and inappropriate. Full stop. Shocking concept to some people apparently. The only reason I even posted my original comment was bc I saw OP’s earlier comment about fb taking privacy very seriously. That was not the case in my experience.

No worries at all! I wasn’t trying to come at you haha. I honestly LOVED my time at FB.

I only added my pair of pennies to share that in my experience FB does not care that much about privacy. Anecdotal of course, but it was a very real and shitty experience for me.

Thank you! It was just really shocking to experience. I posted about it internally to a large group and many, many people were outraged about the whole thing and that really comforted me. It’s a high tech society these days tho, shit like that is fuckin creepy and unacceptable and it’s gross as hell how often it happens. hope all is well your way!!