2018-12-19 22:41 |
Last night, we got word of yet another Facebook privacy scandal. What is that, Number 427 for the year? In this case, a report from The New York Times revealed the social media company gave an extreme amount of access to certain partner companies, over and above what users might have expected.
According to the NYT report, Facebook offered these companies access to everything from friends lists to private messages, even after it claimed it no longer offered such access to anyone. Netflix and Spotify apparently had the ability to read, write, and delete messages for users, while Microsoft’s Bing search engine could…
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