"Some employees of Snapchat, the app popular with kids especially in the US and famous for messages that disappear after some time, have gained improper access to user information using an internal tool originally designed to satisfy requests. law enforcement. The news comes from the investigation site Motherboard, the same one that a few weeks ago gave the news of the dismissal of a Facebook employee guilty of violating the privacy of an ex on the platform.
Motherboard collected testimonials from four former Snapchat employees who talked about the SnapLion tool that can reveal a user's location, but also a user's phone number and email. Company employees reported incidents that occurred "several years ago" and "a few times". It is not known if this still happens today, because Snapchat has not commented. A technological paradox is that the use of SnapLion did not provide for access and 'log in' procedures that in fact could have allowed to trace whoever exploited it improperly. What is striking is the ease with which some employees of social platforms can commit abuse.
Facebook fired a security engineer for breaching a woman's personal data. While Uber's use of a tool called God View, which revealed the pilot's location, caused an investigation by the New York State Attorney General to be opened. Both companies responded by promising tougher privacy controls: in the case of Facebook, the employee in question was fired. "
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