Iām still convinced I made the right decision by never dealing with Facebook. Facebookerati might want to check to see if Facebook really fixed their privacy settings after this bug exposed all new posts from roughly 14 million people over a period of two weeks.
Your Private Facebook Posts May Have Been Public For Days (Huffington Post)
Facebook has had another privacy mishap, this time announcing a recent bug that may have caused up to 14 million usersā new posts to appear publicly even if they had previously chosen a more private default setting such as āfriends only.ā
The company said Thursday that over several days last month ā from May 18 to May 27 ā a bug had caused affected usersā new posts to automatically be set to āpublic,ā overriding their usual privacy settings, which may have restricted who could view their posts and photos.
The company said it had fixed the bug, changing the settings of all of new posts published over that period back to the affected usersā previous settings. The bug didnāt affect older posts, the company said.
āWeād like to apologize for this mistake,ā Facebookās chief privacy officer, Erin Egan, said in a statement.
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They have begun notifying users who may have been affected so they can review their privacy settings.