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Facebook privacy loophole allows profile stalking
"Computer scientists Shah Mahmood and Yvo Desmedt at University College London recently found a loophole in Facebook’s privacy settings allowing for ongoing profile stalking that is hard to spot and almost impossible to stop. The researchers took advantage of two flaws in Facebook’s system: a) users can deactivate/reactivate their accounts in an unlimited way, and b) while an account is deactivated, the privacy settings associated with that account cannot be changed.

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Facebook says it has already fixed a new privacy loophole that allowed you to stalk someone?s profile. The social networking giant said it responded to the issue within 48 hours.

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