Former Meta Employee Probed for Accessing 30,000 Private Facebook Photos
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A former Meta employee is the subject of a criminal probe after being accused of allegedly accessing and downloading roughly 30,000 private Facebook images while employed at the company. The case has drawn the attention of the Metropolitan Police's cybercrime unit, which is investigating how the images were accessed, whether they were shared or otherwise misused, and what internal safeguards may have failed. Meta has not publicly detailed the scope of its internal review, and the probe centers on both the individual actions and broader questions about employee access to user content.