Privacy implications of Facebook coding bug

It may only have impacted a "small number of users" for a "short period of time" as a Facebook spokesperson put it, but by pushing out buggy code the social networking giant created a potentially huge privacy problem for those whose accounts it did touch upon. Considering that Facebook has some 350 million users, that 'small number' could be really quite big when you think about it. Facebook itself is not revealing how many were hit earlier in the week when the buggy code push took place, but if it were just half of one percent of the userbase that's still 1.75 million people!