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We hear that a 24-year-old Facebook customer service rep couldn't contain her curiosity, and spent one weekend afternoon playing around with the universal login which showed who viewed whose profiles and other goodies. The major issue? She did this at home, with non-Facebook friends present and viewing the database information. Granted, this happened a year ago, and the employee and friend in question didn't use the information maliciously. — just creepily. The rep and her friend looked up who had viewed their profiles and checked out the profiles of boys they like. But what's really unfair is that only Facebook employees get to do this. To quote one of our more perspicacious commenters, "When are they going to have an app for that?"
Facebook employee used login as dating tool
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2:52 PM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By Megan McCarthy
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Friendster has that ability. You can see who checked you out right away.
Shocked? Surprised? Did you know that Facebook's privacy and security policies ALLOW employees to do this? In fact, they are the only major sites that don't have policies and security measures in place to prevent this sort of issue from happening.
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I'm in the middle of developing a tracking application for friends. Will keep you posted. Hopefully no more week long delays such as birth of another child will interrupt things. Hopefully a couple days. Will keep you all posted. I made some pretty good progress last night after being away for a week or so.
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