Leaked Facebook document shows 'mishandling' user data privacy
A tech fire report revealed a recent leak of a document that privacy engineers and Facebook's advertising team sent to company managers last year that the most popular social networking site was "unable" to control user information management.
Facebook's owner Meta has been embroiled in several controversial privacy issues, such as the lack of privacy and sale of user data.
The leaked report was written by Facebook's advertising team, which is responsible for people-to-business relationships and building the advertising system that forms the core of the company's business.
The document outlined some problems with Facebook's current policies, as multilateral data and sensitive information are stored together, making it difficult to manage specific data, prompting engineers to demand changes to the current system.
Engineers warned that the system could cause problems in many countries around the world.
"We do not have sufficient control and explain how the system uses data, so we cannot make reliable changes in policies, or pledge not to use the data to achieve certain objectives, but that's what regulators expect us to do, increasing the likelihood of error," the report said.
Attempts to regulate the use of data platforms such as Facebook have multiplied over the last few years; the most important is the EU Public Data Protection Regulation Convention 2018, which sets data collection with clear and legal objectives, without using it in a manner contrary to these objectives.
The organizers of the report have already reached out to a former Facebook employee asking him about the company's data process, to answer that what is happening is "a big mess and very bad."
They also reached out to a Facebook spokesman, who categorically denied the company's failure to comply with regulations.
"Two Facebook employees discussed how the company handles data internally, trying to comply with privacy laws and secure infrastructure that makes user data analysis, automated to minimize the human factor as much as possible," the report said.
