Facebook Apologizes For Bug That Temporarily Unblocked People From Block Lists

Facebook revealed on Mon that more than than 800,000 users were recently affected by a bug that caused the system to temporarily unblock some people that they had previously blocked. The company has already started notifying users of the glitch, and has too issued an apology for the same.

Facebook'due south Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan said that the fault has been rectified, and the unblocked contacts have all been re-blocked automatically. While she didn't share many technical details about how and why it happened, she did claim that the bug was caused by a "technical issue", and was live from May 29 to June five.

Egan further said that the mistakenly unblocked users weren't automatically reinstated as friends (if they were friends earlier), nor did they go access to any info that's simply shared with friends, but they could see "things posted to a wider audience".  Alarmingly, however, the problems did let blocked users to contact the person who blocked them, although, about 83 percent of affected users apparently simply had one blocked person temporarily unblocked, though there's no way to verify this merits.

It is worth noting hither that this is the second software glitch Facebook has revealed in less than a month. Just a few weeks ago, the company disclosed that a software bug set some posts to 'public' by default regardless of whether those posts were meant for public viewing or non. The scale and scope of that problems was much larger than this one, and affected a whopping 14 1000000 users over several days in May.

Source: https://beebom.com/facebook-apologizes-for-bug-that-temporarily-unblocked-people-from-block-lists/

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