Earlier this week the story broke that an employee of Facebook’s security team may have used his privileged access to Facebook user data to stalk women online and he was apparently not the first. Employees who abuse these controls will be fired,” which certainly seems to suggest the company believes there is at least the potential that private data was misused. Other companies prized user privacy as sacrosanct, with the technical safeguards to match. One company required that access to user data receive two different approvals and a review of why other alternatives that did not use private data were insufficient. In the end, perhaps the biggest lesson here is that companies must lead by example and foster a culture of treating private data misuse as seriously as they treat media leaks.

Source: Forbes May 04, 2018 01:52 UTC