Spokespeople at some of Facebook’s partner companies said the companies didn’t even know they had such broad privileges. “Instead, internal documents show, it did the next best thing: granting other companies access to parts of the social network in ways that advanced its own interests.” In some cases, these features could be activated by Facebook’s partner companies without the knowledge or permission of Facebook’s users. Dance, Michael LaForgia, and Nicholas Confessore. “Facebook has never sold its user data,” write Gabriel J.X. The range of intentionally shared data includes private messages, the identities of people in those messages, users’ contact information, friend lists, and even the content of friends’ posts. In all, the Times reports that between 20, Facebook gave more than 150 companies access to the personal data of its users.
The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer, despite public statements that it had stopped that type of sharing years earlier.
As the media continues to uncover more and more information about ongoing privacy issues regarding Facebook - both its intentional data sharing and its unintentional leaks - the New York Times has published a new bombshell report: Facebook has spent years giving major corporations, including the Times itself, invasive access to its users’ content and contact information, much more than it has previously disclosed.Īs detailed in documents obtained by the Times, Facebook gave companies like Netflix and Spotify access to its users’ private Facebook messages, in addition to an extensive range of other personal data.Īnd as the most eye-popping quote from the Times report reveals:įacebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.
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