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For a company with both a horrible track record on privacy and an incredibly strong monetary incentive to monitor its users, I'm curious if engineers like yourself understand that eventually this product will morph into a tool of mass surveillance? Every time Facebook has pitched a product as "Private by design" it eventually gets tapped as a new data source (see WhatsApp, etc.).

Most people in this thread are saying, essentially, "Fool me once..." But I'm curious to know if engineers internal to Facebook are aware they are in the same situation, where the privacy assurances by the company will eventually get usurped by its thirst for data. Or do you acknowledge that will happen and just see yourself as a mercenary?