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    Facebook bug allowed other sites to view users' likes and interests

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    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    11.13.2018

    Facebook's privacy woes are a little murkier after it emerged a bug allowed websites to extract certain data from users' profiles, such as their interests and likes, without them knowing about it. Facebook fixed the bug a few days after Imperva security researcher Ron Masas flagged it in May, and the company told TechCrunch it hasn't seen any abuse of the vulnerability.