Sina Science and Technology News on the evening of August 4, Beijing time, it is reported that an internal document showsGoogleMore than 80 employees have been fired in the past three years, mainly for misusing internal tools to access user data.
This document shows that, in some cases, GoogleSome employees also use these tools to spy on other employees, in violation of Google's policy.
Google fired 36 employees last year, most of them for improperly handling confidential information, such as sharing it with outsiders, the documents said. In addition, Google fired 18 people in 2018 and 26 in 2019 for reasons related to data security.
In response, a Google spokesman said: "We strictly restrict employees' access to data through a series of industry-leading protection measures." For example, restrict access to user data, require reasons for access, conduct multi-stage reviews before granting access to sensitive data, and monitor access exceptions and violations. "
In fact, the abuse of user data by employees is not limited to Google. It was reported in the middle of last month thatFacebookFifty-two engineers were fired in a year and a half, most of whom abused their authority to access and use the personal information of female users they were interested in.
According to the report, from January 2014 to August 2015, Facebook52 employees were fired for misusing user data for personal purposes. For example, an engineer at Facebook abused his access to user data to track a woman who "broke up with him". The engineer then used the data to find the woman's location in another hotel.
Another Facebook engineer used his employee authority to dig up information about a woman. The woman had dated the engineer before, but did not reply to his messages later.
In addition, it was reported in 2019SnapChat employees abuse data access and use internal tools to monitor others.