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We are having an issue with one facebook users account where the privacy field returned for his posts are always blank. I have tried reproducing this with my account or a test account, but in all cases the privacy is filled in. Here is a sample using the graph api tool (some fields removed for brevity):

  "id": "<deleted_for_privacy>", 
  "from": {
    "name": "Joe Blog", 
    "id": "<deleted_for_privacy>"
  "story": "Joe Blog added a new photo.", 

  "picture": "<deleted_for_privacy>", 
  "link": "<deleted_for_privacy>", 
  "icon": "<deleted_for_privacy>", 
  "privacy": {
    "value": ""
  "type": "photo", 
  "status_type": "added_photos"

According to the documentation for privacy the field this should always contain a value.

My initial thoughts was it was related to the blackberry app being used and the old mobile version setting, but posting from the desktop browser results in the same issue.

So what does a blank setting mean? Is it public, private or a bug?

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obviously it's a bug –  林果皞 Apr 18 '13 at 13:26
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