Latest Facebook Bug Compromises User’s Privacy


Now, the Facebook keeps making few mistakes which share your info with others and this time it with those people who you have unambiguously blocked from your account.

According to a latest official blog post by Facebook, now the company is notifying over 800,000 users by which some unwanted people might have seen posts on the Facebook and the Facebook Messenger, even if you had proactively blocked those people from seeing your posts, between the May 29 and the June 5 of this year.

Always keep in mind that, they couldn’t see your private posts ever, or posts you had only shared with your friends or relative. But if you sent any post to the friends of friends or might be to a wider audience, then the blocked people could easily see them. And those users or people might have been able to contact the people who are on Facebook Messenger and who had blocked them, probably leading to the harassment.

Facebook stated that the bug didn’t re-add some friends who you have unfriend from your account and the huge majority of almost 83 percent of the people who are affected by the bug and only had a single person who is temporarily unblocked.

However, add this to approximately 14 million of people’s who shared the posts publicly when they meant them to be confidential, the Facebook application that leaked their analytics to the testers as an alternative of the developers. The Facebook has quizzes that shared your user data and dozens of the companies that silently had some special arrangements to access the Facebook user data and since all of this Cambridge Analytica scandal and Facebook would appear to have rather the trust problem.

Source : https://help-aol.org/latest-facebook-bug-compromises-users-privacy/

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