Wednesday, August 19, 2015

That Fired Facebook Intern Explains The 'Marauders Map' Extension That Cost Him His Gig

10 weeks after his lost Facebook internship made international news, 21-year-old Harvard student Aran Khanna still seems flummoxed that his attempt to fit in with Facebook's declared "Hacker Ethos" got him booted. When he launched Marauders Map, a browser extension that scraped location data from Facebook messenger and plotted it on a map—and which ultimately lost him the internship he'd lined up—he said he was doing so to highlight privacy concerns.

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