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Facebook has been under a microscope about people\'s privacy. In a recent articl

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Facebook has been under a microscope about people's privacy. In a recent article from BBC news, they reported that Facebook's technology had a "bug" that affected millions of users by automatically posting everything as public posts. This bug was active for a few days in May and was not handled until a week later. This "bug" could have deeply affected users all across Facebook, essentially betraying their privacy. Pairing these events with the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, its clear that Facebook needs to address these problems with the correct actions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44407767

Do you think we get what we deserve by using Facebook in the first place? It was noted that people started leaving the site when the Cambridge scandal was first at play, but it was not a significant amount of users. Does this mean that uses are just enabling these privacy scandals?

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Yes users plays a vital role to help the company implement the security mechanism. Moreover the end user testing should be done prior to the breach which happened. And also the support and maintenance activity should have been continued to have detected the bug before it became a breach of security.