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Security glitch: Facebook CEO's photos leaked

Last updated on: December 8, 2011 13:56 IST

Mark Zuckerberg with Beast, his Hungarian sheepdog.

A security flaw in social networking site Facebook has exposed photographs of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, from his private page.

Due to the security glitch, users could access photographs even though they were private.

The photographs that were leaked were taken inside the billionaire's $7-million California home, with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan.

Facebook said it fixed the bug which led to the embarrassing expose of its own CEO's photographs.

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Security glitch: Facebook CEO's photos leaked

Last updated on: December 8, 2011 13:56 IST

In a post on Facebook on November 29, Mark Zuckerberg wrote, "Privacy is so deeply embedded in all of the development we do that every day tens of thousands of servers worth of computational resources are consumed checking to make sure that on any webpage we serve, that you have access to see each of the sometimes hundreds or even thousands of individual pieces of information that come together to form a Facebook page."

"This includes everything from every post on a page to every tag in those posts to every mutual friend shown when you hover over a person's name. We do privacy access checks literally tens of billions of times each day to ensure we're enforcing that only the people you want see your content. These privacy principles are written very deeply into our code," he explained.

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Security glitch: Facebook CEO's photos leaked

Last updated on: December 8, 2011 13:56 IST

Mark Zuckerberg with girlfriend Priscilla Chan.

"I founded Facebook on the idea that people want to share and connect with people in their lives, but to do this everyone needs complete control over who they share with at all times.

This idea has been the core of Facebook since day one. When I built the first version of Facebook, almost nobody I knew wanted a public page on the internet," he said.

That seemed scary. But as long as they could make their page private, they felt safe sharing with their friends online. Control was key. With Facebook, for the first time, people had the tools they needed to do this.

That's how Facebook became the world's biggest community online. We made it easy for people to feel comfortable sharing things about their real lives.

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Security glitch: Facebook CEO's photos leaked

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"I also understand that many people are just naturally skeptical of what it means for hundreds of millions of people to share so much personal information online, especially using any one service.
Even if our record on privacy were perfect, I think many people would still rightfully question how their information was protected," Mark Zuckerberg said.

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Security glitch: Facebook CEO's photos leaked

Last updated on: December 8, 2011 13:56 IST

"Facebook has always been committed to being transparent about the information you have stored with us – and we have led the internet in building tools to give people the ability to see and control what they share.

But we can also always do better. I'm committed to making Facebook the leader in transparency and control around privacy," Mark Zuckerberg wrote in the post.

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