Facebook's Alex Stamos called for huge changes to solve the company’s problems in a leaked memo
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Alex Stamos, Facebook’s head of security, called for radical overhaul in how Facebook operates in a leaked memo from March 2018, as the company reeled from a chain of ugly scandals.
In the nearly-1,700-word memo, which was published by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday, the chief security officer called for Facebook to collect less user data, stop focusing on growth, and to listen to concerns when people think a feature is “creepy.”
“We need to change the metrics we measure and the goals we shoot for. We need to adjust PSC to reward not shipping when that is the wiser decision. We need to think adversarially in every process, product and engineering decision we make. We need to build a user experience that conveys honesty and respect, not one optimized to get people to click yes to giving us more access. We need to intentionally not collect data where possible, and to keep it only as long as we are using it to serve people,” Stamos reportedly wrote.
