For more than two weeks, instructions on how to circumvent the Facebook’s privacy policy were circulated online. And during the period the hackers had a field day by posting Zuckerberg’s private albums and its contents on other websites.
A Facebook spokesman said: "We discovered a bug in one of our reporting flows that allows people to report multiple instances of inappropriate content simultaneously."
"The bug, was a result of one of our most recent code pushes and was live for a limited period of time. Not all content was accessible, rather a small number of one's photos," he added.
"Upon discovering the bug, we immediately disabled the system, and will only return functionality once we can confirm the bug has been fixed."
"The privacy of our user's data is a top priority for us, and we invest lots of resources in protecting our site and the people who use it."
Though the fix has been affected, Facebook’s flaw opened up a fiery debate over privacy policy. The tweets have been flying fast and furious and pollsters have found a new subject to survey. What the pollsters found out was equally significant.
With Facebook’s fastest growing demographic — young adults and university students — showing no major concerns for their privacy, the most surprising thing that the pollsters found was that the majority of Facebook users in just about all the other demographics don’t either.
The fact that the notion of privacy differs widely among generations, could be a factor in the way the survey turned out.
But one thing resulted after the flaw exposed Facebook, and that is the site has pledged to tighten its privacy policy. Whether it would resonate with the Facebook followers is another question.
