The CNIL said it was "satisfied
that there was no bug or technical glitch that made public the private messages
or personal information of Facebook users."
The French government last
Tuesday summoned Facebook managers to explain rumours that some users' privacy
had been violated.
Facebook, which had then denied
that such messages were appearing on users' "Timelines", which can be
accessed by a large Internet audience, said it had been vindicated.
CNIL said the rumours may have
stemmed from the fact that some users had sent public "Wall-to-Wall"
messages mistakenly thinking they were private ones.
Concerns that private Facebook
messages from 2007, 2008 or 2009 were being posted for public viewing spread
wildly on Twitter last Monday after a story first appeared in the free French
daily Metro.
But experts rubbished the
claim.
"The 9/11 of private life
has not happened," said Vincent Glad from Slate.fr, the French incarnation
of the US-based online current affairs and culture magazine.
Glad said a similar rumour
circulated in Finland last year.
US technology news website
Techcrunch said: "We have found no evidence that the allegedly exposed
posts were actually private messages. Our Facebook specialist... found that
email receipts show allegedly exposed messages were in fact Wall posts, and the
posts do not appear in users' Facebook Messages inbox."
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