Thursday 20 December 2018

Facebook let tons of companies get info about you, including Amazon, Netflix, and Microsoft

Facebook let tons of companies get info about you, including Amazon, Netflix, and Microsoft

Facebook has admitted it allowed other big tech companies to read users' private messages, but denies it did so without consent. The response came in a blog post by the firm Wednesday after a New York Times investigation found that Facebook gave companies including Netflix, Spotify and the Royal Bank of Canada the ability to read, write and delete users' private messages. The report on Tuesday also said it permitted Microsoft's Bing search engine to view the names of nearly all of a Facebook user's friends without consent.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/facebook-gave-amazon-microsoft-netflix-special-access-to-data-nyt.html?source=Snapzu

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