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Pesky Bug Drags Facebook Shadow Profiles Into the Spotlight

2013-06-24 21:40:59| TechNewsWorld

A bug that has been in Facebook's network for about a year, has exposed private information on about 6 million of its users to other users during that period. This has revived concern that the company maintains a database of shadow profiles of members and their friends, even if the latter are non-members. Facebook has found and squashed the bug, but the news has angered some users.

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