If you work at one of these, do you trust your company to protect sensitive user data (e.g. full name, home address, search history) from access by insiders or external leaks?
I worked in multiple faang and I trust all of them based on my first hand experience. Do you know how much wrestling with lawyers and privacy council I needed to do just to run some model on some data that is not PII and I couldn’t even debug or see the data. Bugs do happen, and sometimes people make mistakes. But compared to other companies I’d say faang tried real hard.
Yes, I know. However, there are often multiple known loopholes. (I don't want to discuss them in a public forum.) The point of comparison is how obvious are the security flaws, number of people who have access, what kind of data, and how soon the holes become patched up.
Its getting stricter internally, but we can still do bad privacy stuff. We can see the schema of any hive table without protection and query them too (but querying might sometimes trigger an alarm if you haven't requested permission, recently added). In WhatsApp, one of my friends can access anyone's account without permission. Of course there's privacy training, but it's not impossible to skirt around it.
Fb is getting better. It’s in the process of tightening up control.
Yes it has definitely been getting better since cambridge analytica.
I do not trust facebook.
I’ve worked at both Apple and Facebook and can attest they both take privacy seriously. I could see a lot at Facebook if I wanted, but the repercussions were so severe that I never would unless I was hankering to get fired. There was a higher risk of accidentally accessing something through negligence. Apple made it very difficult to access things regardless. If someone’s accessing sensitive data at Apple he didn’t get there by accident
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