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July 25, 2011 06:09 am GMT

Facebook Glitch Revealed Thumbnails & Descriptions Of Friends' Private Videos

Facebook's labyrinthine privacy controls have sprung another leak.This time it's their Videos feature, which lets users share brief clips with their friends and family (Videos launched back in 2007 and Facebook now serves billions of views each month). Of course, videos are often sensitive "even more so than photos "but Facebook's privacy controls let you restrict who has access to each clip that you've uploaded.Unfortunately, those controls haven't been working as they should: for the last week it's been possible to see a full listing of your friends' Facebook videos, including the name, thumbnail, description, and people tagged in each clip "regardless of whether or not you were supposed to have access to the videos.

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