[motohagiography]

We have recourse against platform employees who snoop user data for personal reasons, and even share it with their friends or political organizations? Literally thought that was a perk of their jobs.

Someone should tell reddit/google/facebook/amazon as that will blow things up pretty badly.

Wait until they are subject to normal privacy regulations that require the companies to list the names of people who have accessed their user data.

[sitkack]

Something like this should probably legislated https://cloud.google.com/access-transparency

But it doesn't stop the government from bulk copying "business data" via powers granted by the Patriot Act.

[twunde]

From what I've heard from ex-FB employees, they are told repeatedly during onboarding that snooping for personal reasons is a first-offensive firable offense, to the point that engineers often won't try to look up information even when debugging prod issues.