A former Facebook employee is suing Meta Platforms for “whistleblower retaliation” after he was fired for raising concerns about the tech giant sharing users’ deleted messages with law enforcement.
Brennan Lawson, a former content screener at Facebook’s Senior Risk & Response Escalations division, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming “Facebook manager Ashley McHugh introduced a new tool to the Escalation team” during a staff meeting. The system enabled the company to utilize its “access to deleted user data.”
The new tool which the company allegedly began employing in late 2018 allowed the Escalation team to circumvent “rules put in place to block Facebook employees from accessing deleted messages.”
“Law enforcement would ask questions about the suspect’s use of the platform, such as who the suspect was messaging, when messages were sent, and even what those messages contained,” the lawsuit states. “To keep Facebook in the good graces of the government, the Escalations Team would utilize the back-end protocol to provide answers for the law enforcement agency and then determine how much to share.”
F**kbook won’t be giving my information out, I’m not on f**kbook
Everyone thinks it’s some Free Speech Forum. Yeah NO. I checked it out 18 years ago before every housewife and the retired was the world was on there and thought NO then too.
Never have done fakebook at all and never going to