Facebook Denied Accusations From NYT Regarding Sharing Personal Data To Its Partners
Jyotis - Dec 20, 2018
The two among the big tech giants who have the access authority to users’ data on Facebook include Spotify and Netflix.
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Responding to the New York Times report regarding its sharing users’ personal data without their consent, Facebook has denied all these accusations on its official website.
A few days ago, NYT reported that Facebook hasn’t respected its users when sharing their personal data with the company’s partnerships as other tech companies and the users haven’t had any right in this case.
As the Facebook director of privacy and public policy, Steve Satterfield made a statement to Business Insider via email to explain the supposed wrongdoing that Facebook’s partners have always put much attention on privacy settings of users. For many years, these tech giants have collaborated with Facebook to bring the app on their own platforms and devices while the company can’t do by itself.
How third-party apps and streaming music service approach users is different from how a game does. Satterfield revealed that its partners only provided some of the features on Facebook and they couldn’t deploy the information available on its data storage to service their own purposes.
The two among the big tech giants who have the access authority to users’ data on Facebook include Spotify and Netflix. According to the New York Times, several million users have risked exposing their personal data each month.
Some Facebook’s partners and its ex-workers received the interviews from the NYT and confirmed that Facebook users have had an unawareness of these companies’ accessing their data, as well as they have no rights to refuse these unexpected approaches.
Besides, a tool developed by Facebook itself helps its partners to control access to private data even when users turn the data sharing feature off. Until now, more than 150 companies have enjoyed the premium access. This seems to express that its privacy rules which are continuously updated are not worth a penny.
Citing many sources, the three companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Amazon can access all contacts of Facebook users, while Netflix, the Royal Bank of Canada, and Spotify have no difficulties to interfere with the private messages such as removing, writing or reading them.
Also in 2018, Facebook was accused of exposing the data of 87 million users to Cambridge Analytica, a data company in the UK, as well as some of the other allegations like the Myanmar violence and the child bride auction in South Sudan.
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