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Facebook Closes Privacy Loophole

  • CNBC, Thursday, July 12, 2018 11:50 PM
Facebook recently closed a loophole that lets third parties discover the names of users in “closed” Facebook groups, CNBC reports. “A Chrome extension that was made specifically for marketers to harvest this information en masse was also shut down prior to Facebook’s move,” it writes. “The privacy issue comes at a time when Facebook is trying to re-position itself as a gathering place for friends, family and those with common problems and interests.”

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