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Valleywag reports on some terrifying behaviour perpetrated by Facebook employees, who have access to tons of private data and consider the ability to look at this user data a "job perk:"

"My friend got a call from her friend at Facebook, asking why she kept looking at his profile," says a privacy-conscious source at a major tech company. Turns out Facebook employees can (and do) check out anyone's profile. Not only that, but they also see which profiles a user has viewed -- a major privacy violation. If you've been obsessed with a workmate or classmate, Facebook employees know. If Barack Obama's intern has been using the campaign account to troll for hotties, Facebook employees know. Within the company, it's considered a job perk, and employees check this data for fun.

With its growth as a public networking community, and self professed privacy activism, Facebook needs to address these glaring privacy concerns quickly if it intends to remain in the good graces of the fickle online community.