Mark Zuckerberg's own sister, Randi, has complained about a Facebook privacy policy after a family photo she posted on Facebook as private was actually visible to more than her friends and started making the rounds online.
Randi Zuckerberg found it "way uncool" that one of her subscribers on Facebook saw and tweeted a family photo that she had shared. "Not sure where you got that photo," tweeted Zuckerberg. "I posted it to friends only on FB."
Randi Zuckerberg, the former head of marketing for Facebook and the executive producer of Bravo's reality series Silicon Valley, was surprised when she discovered that a Zuckerberg family photo of Randi and her family (including Mark) reacting to the new Poke app.
One of her Facebook subscribers, Callie Schweitzer, director of marketing and projects at VoxMedia, re-posted the Zuckerberg family photo publically on Twitter.
According to Buzzfeed and Zuckerberg's tweets, Schweitzer was friends with another one of the Zuckerberg sisters and because she was tagged she was able to see it. ".@randizuckerberg demonstrates her family's response to Poke #GAH," Schweitzer tweeted along with the photo.
Callie Schweitzer immediately apologized for the mistake. "I'm just your subscriber and this was top of my newsfeed. Genuinely sorry but it came up in my feed and seemed public," she tweeted.
When she didn't get a response, she tweeted another message: "totally fair. I would hate for a private photo of mine to be public and would never want to do same to others.
Randi Zuckerberg seemed to continue to ignore her messages and tweeted: "Digital etiquette: always ask permission before posting a friend's photo publicly. It's not about privacy settings, it's about human decency."
Facebook made some changes to their site last Friday, by rolling out redesigned and cleaner privacy tools. One of the additions included educational messages, which pop up when you untag a photo. The message tells users that the photo still might be visible by others.
