Ex-Meta engineer says privacy checks are strict, but Instagram staff peek daily
ThomasScialom · x · 2026-09-09
A former Meta employee of 8 years defends the company's privacy safeguards, claiming staff get fired for looking at user chat traces — while conceding in the same post that Instagram employees apparently do it every day.
The post quotes Rex Salisbury's warning to "never trust Meta with your data," highlighting the ongoing tension between Meta's official privacy controls and public skepticism about how user data is actually handled internally.
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