Report: Facebook glitch allows peek into private videos

For a few days, a glitch in social network juggernaut Facebook's privacy controls may have users giving their friends a peek at otherwise private videos, according to a report on a tech site. Since last week, a listing of some users' videos - including names, thumbnails and descriptions - could be seen even by those not supposed to have access to them, TechCrunch said. "A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed that the site has now fixed the glitch, and that it was live for just over a week. And to be clear, this only affected videos shared by your Facebook friends — you couldn’t view descriptions of videos shared by people you don’t know," it said. Before the glitch was fixed, it was possible to see a potentially incriminating thumbnail or "lewd title," although when one clicked on the thumbnail to a video that was supposed to be private, he or she would get a message, "This video either has been removed from Facebook or is not visible due to privacy settings." Even if a video description did not show anything incriminating, it could lead to some awkward questions, the article said. TechCrunch said this was the latest in a long string of Facebook privacy holes. It added that while its potential rival Google+ may be making a lot of headlines, Facebook’s biggest threat right now is "negative perception around privacy and trust," and these bugs "don’t help." — RSJ, GMA News