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Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by formerly_proven »

haunter wrote: post #78
jazzpush2 wrote: post #4

Meta continuing to be the most shameless (and shameful to work for) company around. I can't think of a single product of theirs that hasn't made the world a markedly worse place. Even their recent hardware foray is managing to find a way to ruin trust in everyday interactions (guys filming drunk girls with Ray Bans, surveillance, etc.). Have several friends at the more 'thoughtful' frontier labs that bin meta applica…

> I can't think of a single product of theirs that hasn't made the world a markedly worse place zstd I’m torn about React and PyTorch :)

zstd was created outside FB, it's an acquihire.

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by [deleted] »

otterley wrote: post #81
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope. Nope nope nope NOPE. No part of this is remotely reasonable. Stop normalising mass surveillance. It is not okay. Not even your own employees, to this degree. Employees are humans too (maybe not the ones at Meta, but I'm speaking in general). Just because somebody is receiving a paycheck for something does not make them fair game for anything and everything to be done to them. > there's a foreman watching the em…

Do you believe that police should have their activities monitored at work? How about child care workers? Nuclear power plant operators? Bank tellers? And if those are ok, what makes them different?

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Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by weedfroglozenge »

darth_avocado wrote: post #16
weedfroglozenge wrote: post #7

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I get paid for my work, not 8 hours a day. I’m a salaried employee. I sometimes have to work more than 8 to deliver things, I sometimes work less than 8. The fact that someone needs to monitor me all day long and potentially could use the information to treat me unfairly is disgusting. I’m not the first in line to defend meta employees, but this is just unacceptable.

Ok but that doesn't change what I said. Whether you work 1 hour that day, or 10, the hours you are giving to the business i.e what they are paying for - You need to be working.

If you're concerned about monitoring during your paid hours perhaps you should focus on being more productive during this time?

I don't think what I am saying is controversial but a lot of people seem to disagree with this

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by digitaltrees »

haunter wrote: post #78
jazzpush2 wrote: post #4

Meta continuing to be the most shameless (and shameful to work for) company around. I can't think of a single product of theirs that hasn't made the world a markedly worse place. Even their recent hardware foray is managing to find a way to ruin trust in everyday interactions (guys filming drunk girls with Ray Bans, surveillance, etc.). Have several friends at the more 'thoughtful' frontier labs that bin meta applica…

> I can't think of a single product of theirs that hasn't made the world a markedly worse place zstd I’m torn about React and PyTorch :)

React made front end suck. Sorry.

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by weedfroglozenge »

ldng wrote: post #12
weedfroglozenge wrote: post #7

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Let me guess, because you, yourself, are not an employee so you don't mind because it does not apply to you ?

I am an employee. I'm also an employee who wouldn't mind if all my key strokes were logged, my movements around the building tracked, and any work calls taken recorded.

When I'm at work, I'm working.

The above type of monitoring would really highlight those of you conducting "wage theft". And you're all getting angry at it. I don't understand. If you focus on work during your work hours, you have nothing to hide.

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by inigyou »

otterley wrote: post #83
inigyou wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe it was the automatic unencrypted weekly data upload to Google Drive

Can you post a link?

No. It's a special arrangement between Google and WhatsApp which makes a file only visible to WhatsApp, and not appear in your regular drive so you can't do normal cloud file operations like generating public links.

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by darkest_ruby »

colordrops wrote: post #88
haunter wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can't think of a single product of theirs that hasn't made the world a markedly worse place zstd I’m torn about React and PyTorch :)

I've avoided react as much as I could. Maintained a high paying frontend career without react until a year or so ago, when I was forced by management to start using it. Thankfully AI was able to touch it for me while I pinched my nose.

What was your framework of choice if not react, if you don't mind me asking

Re: Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Post by thin_carapace »

lend000 wrote: post #52
test6554 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in the day... 2004-2005 facebook was amazing. Spread like wildfire, and lots of fun to use. Just you and your college friends, and their friends.

Even the original idea (if The Social Network is a trustworthy source) was copied -- Zuckerberg just has a complete lack of vision, but is clearly an intelligent operator with good business sense. Jagged intelligence, like an LLM.

has zuckerberg done anything productive of his own accord? facebook was ripped off. most meta companies were acquired. it could be argued that propagandizing the entire world was productive relative to vested interests but that was done on the behest of those interests, not zuck himself. the only thing im aware of zuck actually spearheading was the metaverse, a conclusively unproductive pursuit costing tens of billions to achieve literally nothing. it isnt objective to unilaterally behave with vitriol ... still this person seems more comparable to cancer itself than any actual human. i guess you could collapse productivity to 'making money' in which case clearly he is productive, im more referring to accomplishing anything useful for humanity. i also dont consider mass surveillance to be useful for humanity as bad actors will always get away with it whether they are on or off camera.
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