The most popular social networking site Facebook is in data-sharing partnership with Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, Royal Bank of Canada, Yahoo, and more. Interviews with 50 former Facebook employees and corporate partners reveal that the Social-networking giant has granted certain companies with access to user data despite restrictions and protections.
Facebook has conflicted with the 2011 consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission that has barred the social networking firm from sharing user data without explicit permission.
Data-sharing Partnership
The data-sharing partnership with companies has benefited more than 150 companies with almost hundreds of millions of user data per month. The data-sharing partnership deal with companies started since 2010 and most of the deals were all active till 2017. Some are still active this year.
The data-sharing partnerships include-
This was the result of a broadly written API, launched in 2010 as part of an early (pre-Messenger) effort to build a messaging platform.
Facebook highlights the benefits of data sharing in its blog post on 18, December 2018. “First, people could access their Facebook accounts or specific Facebook features on devices and platforms built by other companies like Apple, Amazon, Blackberry, and Yahoo. These are known as integration partners. Second, people could have more social experiences – like seeing recommendations from their Facebook friends – on other popular apps and websites, like Netflix, The New York Times, Pandora and Spotify,” Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Director of Developer Platforms and Programs at Facebook, wrote in the blog.
“Facebook’s partners don’t get to ignore people’s privacy settings, and it’s wrong to suggest that they do,” said Steve Satterfield, director of privacy and public policy at Facebook, in an email.
“Over the years, we’ve partnered with other companies so people can use Facebook on devices and platforms that we don’t support ourselves,” he added.
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