Users of Facebook were screened photos of others by an error in the method by which abuse is reported can be. Also photos of Facebook founder Marc Zuckerberg are so ended up on the street.
The security error was in the antipornofunctie of Facebook. The social-networking site has a feature that allows a profile picture of a user on Facebook can be reported if it is pornographic. If a user did this, then he appeared then in all the pictures of the reported user to be able to see, including pictures taken by the user were marked as private.
The error was on Tuesday discovered and is in the hours immediately afterwards by Facebook poem. Facebook states that the error crept into a recent change to the code and that misuse of this error, a limited amount of time has been possible. Internet users, however, have enough time to leak to ‘abuse’ which of several persons of private photos could be viewed. Also Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had to believe: on a site where images online that can be uploaded are photos of the ceo published.
It is not the first time Facebook being embarrassed by privacy-related matters. As demonstrated, two students at the beginning of this year, a way to, although with some difficulty, data of Facebook users to read. It also emerged earlier this year that third parties, such as advertisers, have accidentally had access to user data like photos and instant messages, so that data mining could do.
At the end of last month reached Facebook yet a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the various resolving privacy infractions once which the social-networking site was accused of. Facebook, as part of the settlement to the year an audit is carried out.