After all the big fuss about Facebook potentially sharing private user information to affiliates and clients, it appears that the public is not about to just let the most influential social networking website off the hook so easily.
Right now, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook website is the hottest and probably most controversial thing on the internet. In the UK alone, there has been plenty of fuss about the website in regards to the promotion and implementation of safety measures for younger users. Across the world, or at least, the internet, the social networking site is being criticized for its announcement regarding the enabling of the multi-website integration of the “like” function, which will potentially be the source of many data mining processes.
Anyway, the big fuss right now is about two major bugs in the system that has recently popped up. Some users have found a bug or an exploit that would allow people to be able to see the chat window content and pending friend invitations of other users.
Facebook’s tech team has swooped in to handle the situation: “For a limited period of time, a bug permitted some users’ chat messages and pending friend requests to be made visible to their friends by manipulating the ‘preview my profile’ feature of Facebook privacy settings. When we received reports of the problem, our engineers promptly diagnosed it and temporarily disabled the chat function. We also pushed out a fix to take care of the visible friend requests which (are) now complete. Chat will be turned back on across the site shortly. We worked quickly to resolve this matter, ensuring that once the bug was reported to us, a solution was quickly found and implemented.”
It would be hard to bash Facebook just for this; after all, any website is prone to having bugs and problems. But there are still many other considerations that the social networking site should be focusing on once they fix this little problem.
Tags: Facebook, personal-data, Social-networking