A Facebook Employee Asked a Reporter To Turn Off His Phone So Facebook Couldn't Track Its Loca

[DamianTV]

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/0...k-its-location

Steve Kovach, writing for BusinessInsider:

To corporate giants like Facebook, leaks to rivals or the media are a cardinal sin. That notion was clear in a new Wired story about Facebook's rocky time over the last two years. The story talks about how Facebook was able to find two leakers who told a Gizmodo reporter about its news operations. But one source for the Wired story highlighted just how concerned employees are about how their company goes after leakers. According to the story, the source, a current Facebook employee, asked a Wired reporter to turn off his phone so Facebook wouldn't be able to use location tracking and see that the two were close to each other for the meeting.

The Wired's 11,000-word wide-ranging piece, for which it spoke with more than 50 current and former Facebook employees, gives us an inside look at how the company has been struggling to curb spread of fake news; battling internal discrimination among employees; and becoming furious when anything leaks to the media. Another excerpt from the story:

The day after Fearnow (a contractor who leaked information to a Gizmodo reporter) took that second screenshot was a Friday. When he woke up after sleeping in, he noticed that he had about 30 meeting notifications from Facebook on his phone. When he replied to say it was his day off, he recalls, he was nonetheless asked to be available in 10 minutes. Soon he was on a video-conference with three Facebook employees, including Sonya Ahuja, the company's head of investigations. According to his recounting of the meeting, she asked him if he had been in touch with Nunez (the Gizmodo reporter, who eventually published this and this). He denied that he had been. Then she told him that she had their messages on Gchat, which Fearnow had assumed weren't accessible to Facebook. He was fired. "Please shut your laptop and don't reopen it," she instructed him.

Now, imagine a future where you have to turn off your phone because your employer will fire you because it judges who you hang out with too harshly, as well as your insurance company who only want an excuse to raise your rates, and a govt who wants to fine you but will settle with throwing you in jail. Todays tech serves the elite, not the people. It is only made to be convenient to the people so that people are willing to give away their privacy in exchange for that convenience.

Thanks phones!

[specsaregood]

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/0...k-its-location
Now, imagine a future where you have to turn off your phone because your employer will fire you because it judges who you hang out with too harshly, as well as your insurance company who only want an excuse to raise your rates, and a govt who wants to fine you but will settle with throwing you in jail. Todays tech serves the elite, not the people. It is only made to be convenient to the people so that people are willing to give away their privacy in exchange for that convenience.

Thanks phones!

Did these people sign an NDA agreeing not to leak confidential information?

Now imagine a future where quality employees choose not to work for employers that would invade their privacy or restrict them unnecessarily.

[Brian4Liberty]

Anytime anyone loads an app on their phone, that app will monitor everything.

[DamianTV]

Did these people sign an NDA agreeing not to leak confidential information?

Now imagine a future where quality employees choose not to work for employers that would invade their privacy or restrict them unnecessarily.

Agreed and scary stuff.

Im sure Fedbook employees were expected to sign NDCs. There are plenty of companies that do, but when signing becomes a condition of employment to work at 7-11, there is definitely a problem.

Anytime anyone loads an app on their phone, that app will monitor everything.

That is the importance of making everything "Opt Out", meaning they have implied permission from everyone to surveillance unless the expressly Opt Out, which is just as soon nullified due to most people just agreeing to the Terms of Service, which will be laid out like @specsaregood mentioned.

[Brian4Liberty]