From the Front Page Sections, translated…
The USA Today from the thirteenth reported about a twenty-one year-old student, Khanna from Harvard at the end of May, developed an extension for the Google Chrome server called “Marauder’s Map”, which allows the Facebook Messenger program to locate the user’s whereabouts, and mentioned to the users, that if they didn’t set up their accounts, then, the Facebook messages will disclose their whereabouts to the users to the public.
Khanna, who had already received an internship to Facebook, after discovering this privacy loophole, a few days later, he’d gotten a note from his supervisor to “stop talking about it”, for him to keep his quiet to the press, to NOT damage the reputation of Facebook. The third day after the publicizing of the Marauder’s Map, Facebook asked Khanna to take it down; after Khanna did, Facebook posted the refreshed messages and stated that they have complete control over the disclosing of their users. But, on the day that Khanna was supposed to go for his internship at Facebook, he was told that his program had violated the privacy of Facebook users, that it’d not fitted with the user agreement of Facebook, and they withdrew the internship offers.
On the eleventh, Khanna submitted this process of what had happened to him to the Harvard Technologies and Sciences Journal, claimed that the program he’d developed didn’t disclose anything new, it’d just pointed out the settings that most Facebook users would overlook.
But, clearly, Facebook didn’t think so, they’d claimed that Khanna used the data from Facebook inappropriately, and violated the rules that Facebook had set up, to protect the users’ privacy, that the customers are always right, and, after they told him again and again, Khanna had taken the program off. The spokesperson for Facebook said, “We would NOT fire our employees based off of the holes in privacy they’d found in our systems, but, we take the abuse of user data seriously.”
And so, this is how one person gets CRUCIFIED, for discovering and publishing the truth to the rest of the world, and this, would be considered “normal” in the big businesses out there, as those businesses cared about reputation too much, and oftentimes, they’d overlooked the issues as privacy of users, rights of the individuals easily, and this man was only a SCAPEGOAT, and he’d found the truth too!