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The issue was outed by developer Nik Cubrilovic on Sunday. "They're sending the information to their servers, even when they (users) are logged out," Cubrilovic told The Australian. "It's a question of what they do with it. They may not do [anything] with it now, but in two years' time, they might introduce a new feature that accesses it."
Facebook's already reacted to the story, guns-a-blazin', pledging to correct the issue by Wednesday this week, it seems. In fact, in an unusual move, they responded directly to Cubrilovic, promising to "fix" the privacy glitch, as well as three other cookie-related issues during a 40-minute conference call Tuesday afternoon.
"They aim to fix it (the logout issue) by tomorrow," said Cubrilovic. "There will still be cookies, but they won't be identifiable. That's within 24 hours. We can only take them at their word."