Facebook admits posts users thought were private were actually public due to software bug

Facebook said that this issue has been fixed is the latest privacy scandal of the world's largest social media company.

Even if you previously restricted posting to "friends only" or other personal settings, we recommend that you post the new post automatically to the user.

If the user does not notice the new default proposal, his post will accidentally be sent to a wider range of users than expected.

Erin Egan, Facebook's highest privacy officer, said the vulnerability did not affect past postings. Facebook notifies affected users during error posting and suggests posting because they posted them publicly. Recently, it was reported that Facebook recently shared user data with device manufacturers including China Huawei.

The company is also recovering from the scandal of Cambridge Analytics with a data mining company affiliated with Trump that collected personal data of up to 87 million Facebook users.

Jonathan Mayer, Professor of Computer Science and Public Relations at Princeton University, said the latest privacy fraud on Twitter is "a feasible Federal Trade Commission / state lawyer's fraud." This is because the company promised to reserve the user-configured settings in the recent privacy settings for future posting. In this case, this situation did not occur for several days.

Facebook with 2 billion users said that this vulnerability has been effective from May 18th to May 27th. The company said that it stopped the error on May 22, but until that time all posts could not be restored to their original privacy boundaries. The company said that a mistake occurred that people shared the "distinctive projects" on their profile. These items (including posts and albums) are automatically published

In the process of creating this feature, Facebook stated that it misrepresented the proposed audience for all new postings.

On June 7, 2018, Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan pointed out that due to a software error approximately 14 million Facebook users set the default sharing settings for all new posts to "Public" . Facebook sends a notification to the user who posted the issue. Facebook spokespeople said the notice is the start of a new aggressive and transparent approach to the company's future issues. "Shadow profile" has become a generic term for data that exceeds the user's official profile or voluntary shared content. This includes non-user data collected by Facebook and potentially collected by Facebook.

Erin Egan, Facebook's highest privacy officer, said the vulnerability did not affect past postings. Facebook notifies affected users during error posting and suggests posting because they posted them publicly. According to recent news, Facebook recently shares user data with device makers including China's Huawei. Jonathan Mayer, Professor of Computer Science and Public Relations at Princeton University, said the latest privacy fraud on Twitter is "a feasible Federal Trade Commission / state lawyer's fraud." This is because the company promised to reserve the user-configured settings in the recent privacy settings for future posting. In this case, this situation did not occur for several days.

On August 19, 2013, it was reported that a Facebook user Khalil Shreateh in the Palestinian Autonomous Region found an error granting permission to post materials to other users' Facebook walls. Users can not contribute to other users' Facebook walls unless they are friends of users who submitted them. In order to prove that he is telling the truth Shreateh posted the material on the wall of a friend of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO Sarah Goodin. Later Shreateh contacted Facebook's security team to prove that his mistake was genuine and explained in detail what happened. There is a bonus program on Facebook that you can refund over $ 500 to report an error rather than reporting an error or selling on the black market. However, instead of correcting the error and paying Shreateh, Facebook was initially reported to have dismissed him saying "This is not a mistake."