Facebook Fixes Search Glitch, Explains Privacy Strategy: "Following yesterday's post about a flaw in Facebook's privacy settings that would let people using Facebook's advanced search options find personal details about persons who had set their profiles to friends only, Facebook quickly fixed their search tool to eliminate that possibility and today its chief privacy officer Chris Kelly spoke with THREAT LEVEL about Facebook's approach to privacy.

'The glitch'was'buried pretty deep in the site's search architecture and one'had to look deep to find them,' Kelly'said.''When there are problems we do try to address them quickly, and we were able to rapidly fix [this].' [ Read more ... ]