Facebook has no idea how to manage personal user data, say reports
Meta-owned Facebook is
reportedly unable to account for much of the personal user data under its
ownership, including what it is being used for and where it is located, media
reports say.
According to the tech website Engadget, privacy engineers on
Facebook's Ad and Business Product team wrote a report last year, intending it
to be read by the company's leadership.
It detailed how Facebook could
address a growing number of data usage regulations, including new privacy laws
in India, South Africa and elsewhere.
The report's authors described a platform often in the dark about
the personal data of its estimated 1.9 billion users, citing an internal report
leaked to Motherboard, the report said.
The engineers warned that Facebook would have
difficulty making promises to countries on how it would treat the data of its
citizens.
"We do not have an adequate level of control and
explainability over how our systems use data, and thus we can't confidently
make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as 'we will not use
X data for Y purpose,'" the authors were quoted as saying.
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