‘Facebook To 6M Users: We Moved Fast And Broke Your Privacy’ – ‘ReadWrite’
The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Facebook To 6M Users: We Moved Fast And Broke Your Privacy”.
David Hamilton says, “Facebook, one of whose core principles is “Move fast and break things,” appears to have done just that with the contact information of some six million users.
The social network admitted that a complex bug involving the way it stores user phone numbers and email addresses of its users may have “inadvertently” exposed that information to other users.
Facebook used this information to make friend recommendations and to make other recommendations smarter. For instance, it would match email and phone data to make sure it didn’t prompt you to invite someone to Facebook if they were already on the service; instead, it would prompt you to add such a person as a friend”.
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