This is what add to the controversy of private data on social networks in General, and Facebook in particular...
Motion down combat in Facebook yesterday, after a user has unveiled a fault which - via a simple handling - gave access to the photos private members. Result, Facebook quickly reacted and blocked this function, before putting in place an update correcting the problem. Handling in question was actually extremely simple.
It was in fact sufficient to use the function to report an inappropriate photo content. Once the notification is sent, Facebook proposed view of other photographs in the series to see if they also violate the rules. Bug, these images proposed by the system could contain private or restricted rights photos. ZDnet, highly reactive, operated this fault to view photos on the profile of Mark Zuckerberg himself protected.
A photo of Mark Zuckerberg made accessible via this bug
"We discovered a bug in one of our flow of reports allowing people to report cases of inappropriate content." "The bug was caused by a recent amendment to the code" said Facebook which blocked the function before repair the problem. Facebook is reassuring in explaining that only a small number of photos were thus accessible. This is, in any case, is not likely to improve the image of Facebook in terms of protection of private data.
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