It is still not clear what sort of tech glitch led to an Icelandic man’s smart phone logging him in to the Facebook page of another Icelander, who he does not even know.
There is some evidence to suggest the man’s mobile browser malfunctioned. The information officer at Síminn Iceland Telecom, the man’s service provider, told DV that his engineers cannot do anything about an error if it occurs in the web browser and not in the company’s own communications network system.
There is at least one other example of a mobile internet user unexpectedly gaining access to a stranger’s Facebook account. That case, in the USA, was revealed to be caused by a fault in the user’s mobile network, AT&T – and that company took responsibility. The Icelandic case, however, is not exactly the same and Síminn is not accepting any responsibility for the accidental breach of privacy at the present moment.
“It is still not clear what sort of tech glitch”. What? of course it is clear for anybody who has any basic understanding of tech. It is clear that the mobile browser could not have created incorrect information out of thin air, therefore the information has to come from the network. That means that either Facebook is broken or the the phone company network is broken. Since there where no other incidents of other none Icelandic Facebook users getting the wrong information, it points to the phone company. This is a classic error of incorrect caching on behalf of the phone company.