unwanted connections

Facebook on Monday said it is notifying more than 800,000 users that a software bug temporarily unblocked people at the social network and its Messenger service. The glitch active between May 29 and June 5 has been fixed, according to Facebook, which has been striving to regain trust in the aftermath of a Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal. "We know that the ability to block someone is important," Facebook chief privacy officer Erin Egan said in a blog post. "We’d like to apologize and explain what happened."…