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Recode: Facebook bug exposed private posts of up to 14M

Published 06/07/2018, 03:31 PM
© Reuters.  Recode: Facebook bug exposed private posts of up to 14M
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  • On the privacy beat at Facebook (FB -1.7%): The company's defense during high-profile hearings over its data-leak scandal has been that users have total control over whether they're sharing info with friends or the world. But a bug may have exposed privately shared info of up to 14M users, Recode says.
  • A bug live for 10 days in May updated the audience for some users' posts to "public" without warning; the audience setting is "sticky" in the sense that it stays with the last set audience, and users may not have realized they were sharing info publicly.
  • Facebook says it's beginning today to alert people who were impacted. The company says the issue has been fixed.
  • “We’d like to apologize for this mistake,” says Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan.
  • Now read: Facebook: I'm Sorry What Was That?


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