New Delhi: When Harvard student Aran Khanna discovered a major bug in Facebook’s Messenger service, little did he realise that in doing so he would lose out his internship at the very organisation.
Khanna had created a Chrome extension-Marauder’s Map- that showed your Facebook friends’ exact whereabouts.
A report on The Next Web notes that the app had been sharing users’ locations by default since 2011. The extension was downloaded 85,000 times in three days before Facebook asked him to disable it. The company further disabled location sharing from desktops and updated its messaging service.
Post the fiasco, Khanna was informed that the company was rescinding his summer internship offer as he had violated its user agreement when he scraped the site for location data.
Also read: Facebook disables Chrome extension that disclosed exact location of your friends
A Facebook spokesperson said that despite being asked repeatedly to remove the code, Khanna left it up, which was wrong and inconsistent with the company’s vision.
Meanwhile, Khanna got an internship opportunity at another Silicon Valley tech firm after publishing a case study on how Facebook responded to the incident.
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