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Facebook acknowledged Monday that for a few days it had unknowingly unlocked unwanted contacts blocked by users, a concern that has now been resolved, affecting 800,000 users between May 29 and June 5.
" We know that the possibility of blocking someone is important ", said on the blog of Facebook a social network manager, Erin Egan, stating that the group wanted to" excuse ". 19659002] Facebook is still trying to rebuild its reputation after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which has earned it police, parliamentary, and regulatory investigations in the United States and other countries.
Since the resounding scandal that has broke out in March, Facebook has promised the " transparency " and therefore communicates regularly, including to reveal itself various malfunctions.
" Block " someone on Facebook the stop to access your posts, to send you messages and remove it from your list of " friends ".
The " bug " did not deliver the users stuck in the " friends " but they were able during that time to send to the " blocker " messages on the instant messenger service Messenger, explained the group, which has invited Monday 800,000 users to check their blocked contact lists.
Facebook has left the personal data of up to 87 million of its users without their knowledge, which ended up in the hands of the British firm Cambridge Analytica , specializing in strategic communication and who worked in 2016 for the campaign of Donald Trump at the White House.
The boss Mark Zuckerberg had to apologize and explain at length in front of American and then European parliamentarians very rallés against the group , who claims 2.3 billion users worldwide
AFP
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