Katherine Losse, the former speechwriter of Facebook founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg, warned the public that Facebook might get a little too deep with its newly launched social search tool. Her statement highlighted concerns over internet privacy and unsolicited data gathering on the world's most popular social networking site.
Losse worked for Facebook for five years after leaving in 2010. While news of the United States government snooping users' personal information broke, Losse told in an interview that Facebook users should be as equally way of Facebook employees. She said the employees like her have total access to users' data, including passwords.
"Even if an average staff person can't access it, the information may still be recorded somewhere for the NSA," said Losse. The statement added speculation towards the recent NSA privacy scandal.
Social media users are at risk of identity theft, made more plausible by the recent information provided by Losse. With access to millions of users' passwords, employees of Facebook can easily use these to access other places, where more often than not, use the same details.
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