How do companies like Facebook pick engineers for controversial/secret projects ?

May 9, 2020 6 Comments

During Zuck meeting with Senate, it came out that FB runs a project to have list of people who had never used FB. I understand that users signup for this and it is part of 35+ page long days policy yada yada yada. I understand no human sits and follows public data, but these are controversial projects.
1) When companies start these kind of projects, how does it goes down the hierarchy, selecting VP, junior engineers etc. ?
2) How do they maintain secrecy?
3) How do they avoid resistance from engineers who cares about privacy? #career #tech #facebook

Non-FB employees welcome to answer. Serious answers please.

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  • What senate hearing did you watch?
    May 9, 2020 4
    • What’s the heck with you OP. How can you take a false news as an example. You are right about companies follow people for data. Take genuine examples. You can’t build a discussion on false examples. this specific example is a big difference to Whatsapp credibility
      May 10, 2020
    • Ok, I updated my question. But we know that when an user backs up their WhatsApp data to cloud it is not secure. The end-to-end security is not applicable at the backing up point.
      May 10, 2020
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    May 9, 2020 0