A Facebook software flaw may have exposed the photos of 6.8 million users to a much wider audience than intended, the social network confirmed Friday. “Our internal team discovered a photo API bug that may have affected people who used Facebook Login and granted permission to third-party apps to access their photos,” said Facebook’s Tomer Bar, in a blog post. FACEBOOK OPENING BRYANT PARK POP-UP TO TEACH USERS ABOUT PRIVACY“We're sorry this happened,” he added. We will be working with those developers to delete the photos from impacted users.”News of the embarrassing software flaw comes just a day after Facebook opened a pop-up kiosk in Midtown Manhattan to teach users about privacy. Facebook and its leadership are coming under intense scrutiny at the moment amid ongoing concern about the tech giant’s handling of user data.

Source: Fox News December 14, 2018 22:52 UTC