Facebook engineers have no idea what happens with user data

Facebook's engineers don't know exactly how the company uses the data of its users, with the giant number of systems in use obscuring where things are stored and what happens to the information.As one of the biggest online destinations, Meta has a duty of care for Facebook users to maintain and securely store their data. However, it seems that that task is too much for any one engineer working for the company to undertake.During a discovery hearing in March that was previously sealed, a pair of Facebook engineers admitted that the task of working out where user data ends up throughout the company would have to be a team effort due to the broad scope of the task. Read more...