If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg thought that he would get a quiet moment after the criticism of recent months is the hailstone down over Facebook, then he must think again.
the Problems of data protection continues for the it giant Facebook, which may have made the private images from nearly seven million users visible to other apps that they previously used.
This writes the news agency Reuters on Friday.
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Technical director at Facebook Tomer Bar has issued a notice in which he explains the problem.
– When someone gives an app permission to access their pictures on Facebook, we give usually only the app access to the images, as the user share on his timeline.
– In this case have an error potentially given appudviklerne access to the other images. Among other images shared on the Facebook Stories and the Marketplace, ” says Tomer Bar.
Also the images that users have never published and shared with the other, but only uploaded to Facebook, it gave the error access to.
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the Pictures have been available for tredjepartsapps from 13. 25. september.
– We are sorry that this has happened. We will work with the developers to delete pictures from the affected users, says Tomer Bar.
Facebook will now contact the users who may be affected by the fault. They will have the opportunity to see what images are shared without their consent.
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