Facebook reportedly provided Apple, Samsung with access to data from users, their friends

According to an extensive report by the New York Times, Facebook reached agreements with at least 60 different device makers — including companies like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and BlackBerry — providing access to large amounts of user data. More significantly, the agreements provided access to friends’ data, raising compliance issues with a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission. The report states that the data of users’ friends was often made available without explicit consent. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook’s app cleanup may end up being more difficult than we think. In March, Facebook came under heavy fire in the wake of news that Cambridge Analytica had misused user data in the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election. Since then, Mark Zuckerberg has testified in front of Congress in an attempt to answer questions about Facebook’s handling of user data. In a test, a New York Times reporter logged onto Facebook using a 2013 BlackBerry device, using an account with roughly 550 friends, monitoring the data requested and received. Through a BlackBerry app called “The Hub,” the device was able to acquire “identifying information” for up to 295,000 Facebook users. It’s worth noting that a… Read full this story

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