Article appeared on telegraph.co.uk.
Facebook has taken its chat system offline while it repairs a security hole that allowed users to see other people’s private chats.
The security flaw, discovered by TechCrunch, relates to a feature on Facebook that allows users to preview their own privacy settings. Describing the problem, TechCrunch’s Steve O’Hear wrote: "There is a major security flaw in the social networking site that, with just a few mouse clicks, enables any user to view the live chats of their ‘friends’. Using what sounds like a simple trick, a user can also access their friends’ latest pending friend-requests and which friends they share in common. That’s a lot of potentially sensitive information."
He said that TechCrunch had informed Facebook of the problem. Facebook now displays a message that says “chat is down for maintenance at this time”.
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New Questions Over Google’s Street View in Germany
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By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN of nytimes
BERLIN : Google’s plan to offer Street View photo mapping in Germany, which has bumped up against the country’s strict privacy laws, has come in for renewed criticism after regulators learned that the company, a search engine giant, was also archiving the locations of household wireless networks.
Google’s Street View technology has been accepted in countries like Britain and France, but has encountered greater resistance in Germany and Switzerland, where data privacy laws are stricter than in the rest of Europe or in the United States.
BERLIN : Google’s plan to offer Street View photo mapping in Germany, which has bumped up against the country’s strict privacy laws, has come in for renewed criticism after regulators learned that the company, a search engine giant, was also archiving the locations of household wireless networks.
Google’s Street View technology has been accepted in countries like Britain and France, but has encountered greater resistance in Germany and Switzerland, where data privacy laws are stricter than in the rest of Europe or in the United States.
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