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Facebook staff spy on punters
ALTHOUGH the social networking site, Facebook makes a great deal about protecting its punters' privacy, its own staff flout the rules as a perk of the job.
According to online gossip magazine, ValleyWag, Facebook employees check out people they fancy and look at which profiles they have viewed.
In other words Facebook knows if you are obsessed with a workmate or classmate. They could be leaking some juicy gossip to the tabloids about the stars who have an account.
ValleyWag says that it is considered a job perk.
Facebook's privacy policy doesn't say anything about its employees' right to check out your profile for any reason. However a couple of people have been contacted by Facebook staff who wondered why they were looking at their profile.
ValleyWag said it has no idea what else employees can see. They could be looking at your messages, private gifts or anything. µ
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Why am I not surprised?

In fact it would seem Facebook's entire reason for existence is as a social data mining enterprise.

guess there really is no such thing as a free lunch.

http://www.idkwtf.com/videos/latest-videos/truth-behind-facebook

More interesting stuff there.
Everyone with an account on a social site should realize that they cant expect privacy. You are willingly putting personal information online, if you dont want it there then remove it and close your account.

Isnt the whole point of your profile so that people can look at it?
Facebook user data should only be available for those whom explicitly need it for their jobs. However, there's always going to be a small population of people supporting the site whom will need access in order to keep the site running properly.

However, there are probably no restrictions in place to make sure these employees are using the data in an ethical manner.
This is why I don't use Facebook anymore...... there's no good that can come out of this