Facebook bug unblocks unwanted connections for a bit
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."…