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Facebook has denied claims that a bug caused private messages of users
appear on Timelines. Earlier, a number of users, mostly in France,
complained that their private messages dated between 2007-2009 started
appearing on their Timelines. France's Le Nouvel Observateur reported
that the private messages from 2010, 2011 and 2012 are being affected,
as well.
Facebook, however, maintains there was no problem in its security systems, and that the messages which appeared were old public messages. BBC, in its report quotes Facebook as saying that the messages were older wall posts that had always been on users' profile pages. "Facebook is satisfied that there has been no breach of user privacy,” said the social networking company.
The report further quotes an unnamed
source as saying that Facebook had never created a mechanism that would
let private messages appear on profile pages. Similar rumours had
surfaced last year but they were proven to be wrong after an “extensive
investigation”, said the source.
BBC
also quotes a number of users who claim that this is a genuine problem.
One of them, owner of What I Wore Today says that messaging between the
six-period (from 2006-2012) appeared on her wall. "I'm 100% sure by
content and from memory. And also some posts on my wall were clearly
beginnings of (private) group [messages],” she writes.
In the meanwhile, the France government has summoned
Facebook managers to appear before the country's data watchdog and
explain the alleged data glitch. France's Industry Minister Arnaud
Montebourg and Small Businesses Minister Fleur Pellerin has reportedly
called for "clear and transparent explanations" and said the incident
demonstrated the need for a better data protection.
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