--- description: Can Mark Zuckerberg access every member’s Facebook profile page and information? title: Here's How Much Access Facebook Employees Have to Your Account image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ffa80328254fb14/6986a5b1cd6848df55096ad9/facebook-homepage.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's How Much Access Facebook Employees Have to Your Account by [Quora](/author/quora/) ## Quora Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 26, 2014 10:10 PM CUT  View of the Facebook homepage taken in Washington on May 6, 2012\. Facebook, already assured of becoming one of the most valuable US firms when it goes public later this month, now must convince investors in the next two weeks that it is worth all the hype. Top executives at the world's leading social network have kicked off their all-important road show on Wall Street -- an intense marketing drive ahead of the company's expected trading launch on the tech-heavy Nasdaq on May 18\. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) View of the Facebook homepage taken in Washington on May 6, 2012\. Facebook, already assured of becoming one of the most valuable US firms when it goes public later this month, now must convince investors in the next two weeks that it is worth all the hype. Top executives at the world's leading social network have kicked off their all-important road show on Wall Street -- an intense marketing drive ahead of the company's expected trading launch on the tech-heavy Nasdaq on May 18\. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)Nicholas Kamm—AFP/Getty Images by [Quora](/author/quora/) ## Quora Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 26, 2014 10:10 PM CUT [_Answer_](http://www.quora.com/Mark-Zuckerberg-1/Does-Mark-Zuckerberg-or-Facebook-employees-have-a-skeleton-key-granting-them-access-to-every-members-Facebook-profile-page-and-information/answer/Joe-Sullivan-1 "undefined") _by_ [_Joe Sullivan_](http://www.quora.com/Joe-Sullivan-1 "undefined")_, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, on_ [_Quora_](http://www.quora.com/ "undefined")_._ I’m Facebook’s Chief Security Officer and I oversee data security at the company. Thanks for the question. We take our role as stewards of people’s information very seriously and have invested heavily in protecting the data trusted to us. There is no “skeleton key.” In fact, we have advanced internal tools that restrict access to information to only those employees who need it to do their jobs (e.g., investigating user reports). There is a cross-functional group of employees who work on these safeguards and appropriate access to these tools. Most employees do not have access and, those who do, must sign an agreement and complete a training program before using our internal tools. Finally, we track the actions performed through internal tools. Each use is logged and requires the employee to explain the purpose of his or her use, and we audit all of this regularly. Neither Mark nor any other senior executive at the company has tool access granted, because they do not have roles in the company where access would be necessary. _This question originally appeared on_ [_Quora: Does Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook employees have a skeleton key granting them access to every member’s Facebook profile page and information?_ ](http://www.quora.com/Mark-Zuckerberg-1/Does-Mark-Zuckerberg-or-Facebook-employees-have-a-skeleton-key-granting-them-access-to-every-members-Facebook-profile-page-and-information "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3433581/facebook-security-zuckerberg-account/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3433581/facebook-security-zuckerberg-account/"},"headline":"Here's How Much Access Facebook Employees Have to Your Account","datePublished":"2014-09-26T22:10:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:03:15.928Z","description":"Can Mark Zuckerberg access every member’s Facebook profile page and information?","url":"https://time.com/3433581/facebook-security-zuckerberg-account/","keywords":["Tech","facebook","privacy","Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ffa80328254fb14/6986a5b1cd6848df55096ad9/facebook-homepage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Quora","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/quora/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ffa80328254fb14/6986a5b1cd6848df55096ad9/facebook-homepage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Facebook Homepage","caption":"Facebook Homepage","creditText":"Nicholas Kamm—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3433581/facebook-security-zuckerberg-account/","name":"Here's How Much Access Facebook Employees Have to Your Account"}}]}] ```