Facebook employees stalk users

Moral hazard vs the ACCESS Act.

An eye peeking through a keyhole set into a rusty steel door. The door has a Matrix waterfall effect superimposed over it. The eye’s pupil has been replaced by the HAL9000 red eye from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The center of the pupil has a Facebook thumbs-up/like icon in it. Image: Cryteria (modified): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg John Lodder (modified): https://www.flickr.com/photos/denisdefreyne/863085355/ Denis Defreyne (modified): https://www.flickr.com/photos/denis

In Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination,” the authors recount the company’s long history of insider threats in which employees (mostly men) used the company’s tools to stalk people (mostly women).

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/an-ugly-truth-sheera-frenkelcecilia-kang

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