It's an odd clear sentiment of how the largest social networking site manages your personal information.
During the Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed March this year, Facebook stated that it already cutting off third-party access to its users' information together with their friends inwards May 2015 only.
However, inwards a 747-page long document [sharing information amongst 61 hardware together with software makers, every bit good every bit app developers subsequently 2015 every bit well.
The disclosure comes inwards reply to hundreds of questions posed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg past times members of Congress inwards Apr most its company's practices amongst data of its billions of users.
The Washington Post reported that the society submitted the documents, representing Facebook's most granular explanation of exemption, inside hours of a Fri black deadline.
Among other things, the documents revealed that Facebook granted a "one-time" six-month extension to 61 companies including AOL, Nike, United Parcel Service together with dating app Hinge to come upwards into compliance amongst Facebook's novel privacy policy on user data.
Besides this, at that topographic point are at to the lowest degree 5 other companies that theoretically may convey accessed express friends’ data, every bit a effect of API access that they were granted every bit purpose of a Facebook beta test, the social media added.
The documents besides acknowledged that Facebook partnered amongst 52 domestic together with international companies, including United States of America tech giants Apple, Microsoft, Spotify, Amazon, Sony, Acer, China-based Huawei together with Alibaba, together with device-makers Samsung together with BlackBerry.
The social network shared information most its users amongst these companies to aid them create their ain versions of Facebook or Facebook features for their devices, good of course, "under the damage together with policies they render to their users."
"We engaged companies to construct integrations for a diversity of devices, operating systems, together with other products where nosotros together with our partners wanted to offering people a agency to have Facebook or Facebook experiences," the document reads. "These integrations were built past times our partners, for our users, but approved past times Facebook."However, Facebook besides said the society has already discontinued 38 of these 52 partnerships together with is going to terminate its partnership amongst an additional 7 past times the terminate of this July together with closed to other i past times the terminate of this October.
Whereas, partnerships amongst 3 companies volition continue, which includes Apple, Amazon, together with Tobii, an accessibility app that enables people amongst ALS to access Facebook, amongst whom the society has agreements that extend beyond Oct 2018.
The document comes months subsequently it revealed that personal information of 87 1000000 Facebook users were harvested past times Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy firm, who reportedly helped Donald Trump win the U.S.A. presidency inwards 2016.
The revelation led to world outcry for lawmakers to grip the social network accountable for its data-management practices, raising questions most whether Facebook tin hold upwards trusted to protect the personal data of its 2 billion users.
Facebook's admission to the extensions, every bit Post noted, is "the fullest to appointment regarding reports that Facebook [had continued sharing] user information amongst closed to companies for years."
Just 3 days ago, nosotros covered a dissever incident, wherein a pop third-party quiz app that runs on Facebook app platform exposed information of upwards to 120 million Facebook users to hackers.
