A new report from Motherboard reveals that Snap employees in the past have abused internal tools in order to glean information about user emails, user location data, and other types of sensitive data. What’s particularly worrisome is that some Snap employees were said to have used these tools to take a look at photos and videos saved by users.
Citing two former employees, the report does make a point of noting that Snap has very stringent rules in place to prevent employees from abusing their power with respect to monitoring user behavior. Still, nothing is fool-proof, which is to say it’s easy for employees tasked with keeping the site safe and secure to use their security privileges in bad faith.
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New report claims some Snapchat employees spied on users originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 23 May 2019 at 17:37:24 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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