Facebook denies privacy breach
2012-09-25 09:17
San Francisco - Facebook on Monday
denied reports that it displayed some users' old private messages in public
"timelines" at the social network.
Facebook said it investigated the complaints, initially from members in
France, and was satisfied there had been no breach of privacy.
"A small number of users raised concerns after what they mistakenly
believed to be private messages appeared on their Timeline," the
California-based social network said in an email response to an AFP inquiry.
"Our engineers investigated these reports and found that the messages
were older wall posts that had always been visible on the users' profile
pages."
Concerns that private Facebook messages from 2007, 2008, or 2009 were being
posted for public viewing spread wildly on one-to-many text message service
Twitter after a story first appeared in free French daily Metro.
Facebook remained adamant that messages at issue were "wall" posts
that have always been open to viewing by others and not made with private
side-conversation tools subsequently added to the service.
