Facebook Plugs Privacy Leak in New Events Feature
Facebook has plugged a privacy hole that showed users' event histories after the matter was reported to it by the critical European group, Europe v Facebook.
Facebook has plugged a privacy hole that showed users’ event histories after the matter was reported to it by the critical European group, Europe v Facebook.
As Facebook began rolling out the updated Timeline format last week, Europe v. Facebook noted the privacy lapse and reported it to the company. The new design includes a listing of all the events the user has attended in the past two years.
“Political beliefs, sexual preferences and other sensitive information and other problematic data can now be seen through events and publicly accessed,” Max Schrems, the head of Europe v Facebook, said at the time.
Within hours, Facebook fixed the problem by removing the lists altogether.
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