Aran khanna a student from Harvard University was preparing to start his desired internship at Facebook. Meanwhile, a application which was created in his dorm room provoked the social media giant to scrapped the offer.
-- Report from: boston.com
Aran's "Marauders-map" a chrome extension which used location data from facebook and shows you immediately where your friends are. It took only 3 days to get viral and downloaded approximately 85,000 times. Facebook noticed it and asked him to stop it.
After this incident facebook stopped location sharing from
its desktop app and improve their mobile messenger and
give control to users to manage GPS data. Before that,
the app shares it's user location since it launched in 2011.
Facebook's head of global human resources and recruiting
sent a email to aron, the post is too medium for his
expertise. Though a facebook employee informed him that,
as he had violated user agreement and his activity was a
threat for user's privacy and they are not interested to work
with him.
When all the tech companies rewarding volunteers for identifying their security flaws, Facebook is running backwards. While Facebook itself has a dark history
of hacking a project during harvard time.
Information Source: The Next WebLabels: facebook, facebook internship, facebook news
After this incident facebook stopped location sharing from