According to newly unsealed court documents, two experienced Meta engineers were questioned about how the firm maintains and tracks user data and claimed that they don't believe anyone at the company could assemble all of the data pertaining to a single user. The two engineers were questioned in court as part of a consumer privacy case stemming from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal. The engineers were questioned in March of this year, but the transcript of the session was only recently released, as The Intercept first revealed. A court-appointed technical expert led the questioning, attempting to determine exactly what information
Facebook s engineers don t know exactly how the company uses the data of its users, with the giant number of systems in use obscuring where things are stored and what happens to the information.