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that company said, when it
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posts and photo albums, NOORD 527-3200
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In the process of creating SAN NICOLAS 584-5000
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In this March 29, 2018, file photo the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq Mar- post "friends only" too. You San Nicolas
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ketSite in New York's Times Square. can still manually change
Associated Press the privacy of the posts —
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NEW YORK (AP) — Face- Jonathan Mayer, a profes- before sharing their infor- the case during the bug's PROF. TAXI 588-0035
book said Thursday that a sor of computer science mation beyond what they life span too.q TAXI D.T.S. 587-2300
software bug made some and public affairs at Princ- established in their privacy SERVICE AUA 583-3232
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