Facebook's photo sharing policy doubtful

You love sharing pictures on Facebook with your friends and relatives, and your settings allow to choose who you would like to share these pictures or posts, and who you would not. However, a recent loophole in the privacy settings of Facebook did not let alone even Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook. This loophole allowed other people access the private photographs posted by one on his/her wall.

There was a glitch in Facebook, which temporarily allowed the users of this social networking site to see others private photos and downloading the same. The CEO”s profile was also ransacked recently, and his photos were posted on the web.

Randy Abrams, the Independent Security Analyst said

“There are a seemingly infinite number of variables to test for in quality assurance.”

Randy said that access to such information could be very dangerous. A date on one of your picture could prove that you were at some other location at that particular time and date, and thus your photo could be misused against you.

However, Facebook now says it has fixed the problem, and the users can post their pictures without any fear.

How it started?

The Facebook’s recent mechanism, which allowed users to report inappropriate images, gave way to the glitch. If the complainer, clicked on the ‘Report’ tag to complaint against some inappropriate photo, he/she could access all the other pictures posted in that person’s profile, so that he/she could check whether these were also inappropriate.

This all was due to some incorrect coding, and Facebook said that it existed only for a short time. They took this feature offline for some time, and resolved the problem.

What caused the problem?

According to Abrams

“Fundamentally, the bug was the result of a failure to apply privacy settings to a public search tool.”

He also said that posting one’s pictures online is risky. You might keep the privacy setting high, but its just one bug or coding that could change it all.

All you followers of internet and the devotees of social networking sites out there; beware of sharing something online.

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