BuzzFeed News reports private Instagram and Facebook accounts may not be as private as users believe. BuzzFeed’s Tech + News Working Group discovered a workaround that allows a user to pull the source URL out of uploaded images and videos and then share a public URL with people who are not followers of the original poster or with people not on social media at all. A Facebook spokesperson said this practice is similar to taking a screenshot of someone’s post and sharing it with others in that “it doesn’t give people access to a person’s private account.” Researchers found the public URLs contain basic information about the images or videos not provided in a screesnshot, such as how it was initially uploaded.
Full Story
Comments
If you want to comment on this post, you need to login.