FACEBOOK: Leaked document shows that Facebook lacks information on collected user data

According to a leaked internal paper written by Facebook privacy experts last year, the company is unable to determine where most of its user data is stored or how it is utilized once it is gathered. The group in charge of building and maintaining Facebook's ad system, which is at the heart of the company's revenue model, has identified "data lineage" concerns with the way user data is handled. The analysis raises concerns about Facebook's ability to comply with inbound privacy requirements from different parts of the world. Facebook's Ad and Business Product privacy engineers sought to identify flaws with the company's management of personal data and asked for improvements to the present system as per the leaked 2021 report obtained by Motherboard. The developers warn that Facebook has "created systems with open borders," likening it to emptying a bottle of ink (representing third-party data, first-party data, and other...