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In reply to the discussion: Quit Facebook and delete the App from your Smartphone. Seriously, delete it. NOW! [View all]Stuart G
(38,414 posts)So, private info was NOT SAFE, IT WAS GIVEN FOR FREE IN PART A SHARING DEALS....
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Facebook allowed Microsofts 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.
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.
In all, the deals described in the documents benefited more than 150 companies ... The deals, the oldest of which date to 2010, were all active in 2017. Some were still in effect this year.
Facebook has found no evidence of abuse by its partners, a spokeswoman said. Some of the largest partners, including Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo, said they had used the data appropriately, but declined to discuss the sharing deals in detail. Facebook did say that it had mismanaged some of its partnerships, allowing certain companies access to continue long after they had shut down the features that required the data.