By @ACSnewsfeed
Publication Date: 2026-02-05 00:00:00
Pinterest accuses the fired engineers of violating company policies and employee privacy. Image: Shutterstock
Pinterest has fired two engineers who it said developed software to track which employees lost their jobs in recent layoffs as the social media company prioritizes “AI-focused roles and teams.”
Although the identities of the two engineers are not publicly known, they reportedly wrote computer code that scanned internal tools to monitor which employees had their accounts removed and were therefore fired.
A Pinterest spokesperson said Information age“After being clearly told that Pinterest would not generally share information identifying affected employees, two engineers wrote custom scripts that improperly accessed sensitive company information to determine the locations and names of all terminated employees, and then shared them more broadly.”
“This was a clear violation of Pinterest policies and the privacy of her former colleagues.”
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