(Natural News) Mark Zuckerberg is hilariously blaming a “bug” for secretly provisioning his Facebook platform to record users’ faces from their smartphone and laptop cameras, without their permission, every time they browse the social media site.
Reports indicate that multiple users were shocked to discover that their device cameras were secretly recording them “in the background” as they scrolled through their newsfeeds, even though they had never given the Facebook app permission to do this.
Many of these individuals took to Twitter to report the disturbing news, which quickly sent a shockwave across the social mediasphere reminding people that personal privacy is now a thing of the past, at least if you own electronic devices that have access to the internet.
According to CNET, which successfully replicated the “bug” using its own tests, the issue is easily identifiable when a user switches out of full-screen mode after looking at a photo or video. A bug in Facebook’s mobile layout shifts the screen slightly to the right upon minimization, and in the open space to the left it becomes apparent that the user’s camera was mysteriously activated.
As news about this “bug” started to circulate, Guy Rosen, Facebook’s “Vice President of Integrity,” took to Twitter to announce that his company is now looking into the matter.
“We recently discovered our iOS app incorrectly launched in landscape,” Rosen wrote in his tweet.
“In fixing that last week in v246 we inadvertently introduced a bug where the app partially navigates to the camera screen when a photo is tapped.
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