Facebook's latest trouble: A privacy bug

Facebook is deep in trouble, yet again. This time for a bug that is estimated to have impacted as many as 1.4cr users.

For four days in May, whatever these people posted was set to 'public' by default.

So a post intended for just friends might accidentally have been shown to the whole world.

What did Facebook do?

On Facebook, a user's last "audience" privacy setting is automatically applied to all future posts, till the time they change it manually.

But during May 18-22, the default setting for these 1.4cr people became 'public.' People could still change it back to what their intended setting was, but only if they noticed the change.

However, no previous posts were affected.