Researchers say Facebook has known for years about exploits similar to the one that used its "contact importer", enabling the scraping of 533M users' data (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Researchers say Facebook has known for years about exploits similar to the one that used its “contact importer”, enabling the scraping of 533M users' data  —  Software makers can't catch every bug every time, but Facebook had ample warning about the privacy problems with its “contact import” feature.

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