Facebook is tracking your every move on the site—or so says one purported Facebook employee, according to an anonymous interview with the Rumpus online magazine. In the interview, the Facebook employee, whose identity was protected so she wouldn’t lose her job for talking to the media, also said that Facebook employees have relatively easy access to user accounts......
Every time you view a profile, look at a picture, send a message or take any other action on Facebook, the company records that action, according to the Facebook employee. At first glance, that sounds like a scary prospect, but the engineer argues that the company does this to deliver a better product. As a result of this tracking, for example, you can get suggestions to reconnect with a Facebook friend.
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There used to be a universal password that Facebook employees could use to view any Facebook account, the anonymous employee claims. But the password has since been discontinued, and now Facebook uses a different system where employees must provide a reason in writing for logging into a user’s account. If the employee cannot back up the reason they had for accessing someone’s account, the employee can be fired.
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The employee claims that Facebook has all of your messages, deleted or not, stored in a database that any Facebook employee can access. The notion that your Facebook messages are stored in a database is about as stunning a discovery as finding out my laptop has a keyboard.
Then again, if any Facebook employee can just query that database to read your personal messages any time they like, well, that’s a problem. I certainly hope Facebook has better safeguards for personal messages than that.
Source; http://www.macworld.com/article/145646/2010/01/facebook.html
Guess the facebook employee is right!
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