Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has always been the subject of controversy with millions of users’ data, may have finally hit the axe. The leaked report among Facebook’s advertising engineers revealed Meta’s vulnerability in data management.
The document, which was leaked to the Internet, was sent to their leader by engineers in the Facebook advertising team. Engineers believe that they are not able to keep track of all the data contained in the platform. Expressing that Facebook may take new measures to protect user data, employees draw attention to the regulatory risk.
Facebook has no knowledge of user data
Facebook, which has a business model based on selling user information, has occasionally been involved in privacy discussions. But the new document showing the conversation between employees revealed that data management could be worse than imagined.
The report detailed how states could address the growing number of data privacy regulations, including new privacy laws. According to the report, engineers described Facebook as a “platform in the dark” for its estimated 1.9 billion users.
Even Facebook engineers feel that the company has no control over how user data is managed. Company employees use the following statements in the leaked report:
“We have established systems with open borders. We do not have sufficient control and accountability over how our systems use data. Therefore, we are unable to make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘We will not use data X for purpose Y’. But that’s what regulators expect us to do.”
This report, which is stated to have been prepared last year, shows that the Facebook database has “open borders”. Although it is not known exactly how these limits are used, it may mean that first- and third-party data and sensitive data are stored together.
Meta, who spends billions of dollars to step into the world of Metaverse, is faced with such a scandal, and it may bring even greater consequences. The inability to keep track of sensitive data could pose problems for stringent regulations such as the EU’s new Digital Services Act.
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