For ten day in May , a Facebook “ bug”changed the nonremittal privateness settingsof young military post for as many as 14 million drug user , Recode reports . As a effect , posts meant to be shared privately may have alternatively been portion out publicly .
Typically , users can prefer to make all their Facebook posts private , meaning only sure admirer can see them . For these substance abuser , each station they write is by nonpayment not partake publicly , unless they individually choose to do so . For ten days , however , a bug caused the privacy options for private post to default on to populace . While the affected users could severally change the stage setting for each post to private before publishing , users who had opted into more secret sharing preferences may not have noticed their nonpayment scene had changed . Facebook say it ’s since fixed the hemipterous insect .
According to CNN Money , affected users will begin receiving notifications on Thursday . In the telling , Facebook tell it has changed the options of individual posts shared during the ten - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. period back to users ’ original preference . Users can brush up each of the posts published during the time period , but of course , they ca n’t do anything about the meter during which they may have been unwittingly made public .
“ We recently set up a bug that mechanically suggested posting publicly when some people were make their Facebook posts , ” Erin Egan , Facebook ’s chief privateness military officer , told CNN Money . “ We have fix this issue and start out today we are allow everyone affected know and ask them to survey any posts they made during that time . To be clear , this bug did not impact anything people had send before — and they could still pick out their consultation just as they always have . ”
[ Recode ]
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