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    Facebook Says Some Users' Private Photos Were Accidentally Shared With Developers

    In September, a Facebook "bug" allowed developers to access images people shared with friends on Facebook Stories — or images users had not even posted. Up to 6.8 million users may have been affected.
    by Camila Domonoske Dec 14, 2018 1 minute
    Facebook employees talk to visitors at a one-day Facebook pop-up kiosk in Bryant Park in New York City on Thursday. The company was fielding questions about its data-sharing practices and teaching users how to understand its new privacy controls. The next day, Facebook announced that a "bug" that had inappropriately shared users' private data — this time, their photos.

    For nearly two weeks in September, developers who created apps for Facebook were able to access user photos that they should never have been allowed to see, the social media

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