Facebook Privacy bug starts investigation
Announcement posted by Optimising 04 Oct 2012
Allegations of user privacy violations that emerged last week have been investigated by various authorities to determine the presence and cause of the fault. Optimising have received many calls from concerned clients regarding their privacy on Facebook.
It’s alleged that the fault causes users’ private messages to be displayed on their wall between the years 2009, 2008 and 2007. The private messages appear to be random or out of sequence, so it looks difficult to determine if the conversations were indeed private.
The team at Optimising doesn’t think their clients have anything to worry about, as none of their private messages contain personal or private information that could be used for evil. Operations Manager at Optimising, Daniel Zuccon stresses that the suspected ‘bug’ isn’t anything to worry about.
“We’ve had a few questions, but there’s nothing that’s seriously affected our clients’ Facebook walls or accounts.” Mr Zuccon said.
“Some Facebook users have sworn that privately sent messages have been made public by the new feature, which summarises the Wall posts for a given year. If users wish to hide the content that reveals their messages from 2009, 2008 or 2007, they just need to click the small pencil in the top right hand corner and click ‘Hide from Timeline.’ “
The new Timeline layout has received mixed reviews from its users, who claim that the new layout makes their history too easily accessible to other users, with difficult to understand privacy settings.