Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug

According to the admissions in its blog, posted late Friday afternoon, Facebook appears to be obtaining users' offsite email address and phone numbers and attempting to match them to other accounts. It appears that the invisible collected information is then being stored in each user's 'shadow profile' that is somehow attached to accounts.Users were clearly unaware that offsite data about them was being collected, matched to them, and stored by Facebook.Looking at comments on Facebook's blog and community websites such as Hacker News, Facebook users are extremely angry that the phone numbers and email addresses that are not-for-sharing have been gathered and saved (and now accidentally shared) by Facebook.Facebook stated in its post yesterday that the bug was resolved, but Facebook users are telling a different story today in the comments.One man commented this afternoon, "I just downloaded the "extended backup" and I'm still viewing emails and phone numbers that are NOT PUBLIC!!!!" Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug | ZDNet