Facebook Privacy Bug Affects 14 million Users

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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44407767

The glitch set a user’s post to be shared to "everyone", even if a user had previously chosen a more restricted option, such as “friends of friends”. “We’d like to apologise for this mistake,” said Erin Egan, Facebook’s head of privacy. Users who may have been affected will be notified on the site’s newsfeed. "We recently found a bug that automatically suggested posting publicly when some people were creating their Facebook posts,” Ms Egan said. "We have fixed this issue and starting today we are letting everyone affected know and asking them to review any posts they made during that time. "To be clear, this bug did not impact anything people had posted before - and they could still choose their audience just as they always have. We’d like to apologise for this mistake."

Those affected by this latest blunder will be shown a graphical notification soon, with the chance to review what posts may have been posted publicly by mistake. A spokesperson told the BBC this method of communication might become more frequent as the network works on ways to be more transparent with users.

 

[Weebarra]

ANOTHER "glitch", everything's a so called glitch these days when people get caught out