Posted on 06/04/2018 2:29:06 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.
As Facebook sought to become the world’s dominant social media service, it struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information.
Facebook has reached data-sharing partnerships with at least 60 device makers — including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung — over the last decade, starting before Facebook apps were widely available on smartphones, company officials said. The deals allowed Facebook to expand its reach and let device makers offer customers popular features of the social network, such as messaging, “like” buttons and address books.
But the partnerships, whose scope has not previously been reported, raise concerns about the company’s privacy protections and compliance with a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission. Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users’ friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders. Some device makers could retrieve personal information even from users’ friends who believed they had barred any sharing, The New York Times found.
Most of the partnerships remain in effect, though Facebook began winding them down in April. The company came under intensifying scrutiny by lawmakers and regulators after news reports in March that a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, misused the private information of tens of millions of Facebook users.
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It is a movie. Do you think the Israeli’s use Stingray (a FBI monitoring tool)?
Once when I was approaching the DC area, I stopped at a truckstop to grab something to eat and my cell phone was taken over by a high speed script. Gave test display as it processed. Finally it quit.
I don’t share GPS or photo data. Well, it does not appear to share it.
The FBI is pretty good, from what I have heard, at monitoring through fake cell sites. But I’ve been told by people familiar with such stuff that the NSA are the very best in the world at it.
It appears that Admiral Rogers really saved us from real disaster after Trump was elected.
A diabolical lie. For example, DB won't let me log on unless I send them a drivers license or passport. How would I change my security settings without logging on?
Since I don’t do Facebook, I have nothing to reference against.
But I don’t trust them at all.
I’ll pass. smile.
“And the BETRAYER Will Have No Place In Heaven ...”
Apparently requiring revealing personal information (like your SSN) is nothing new for facebook (despite current news stories).
BOYCOTT
Nothing ever goes away, it simply joins the infinite loop.
I’m a big fan of jubilee year. :)
Jubilee Indeed.
I’ve never been on Facebook.
Twitter is bad enough.
Google Twitter Facebook Zuckerberg Amazon musk Etc are all agents of the state from the very Inception of their prosperity and success.
So are the technical industry manufacturers. All are initiated backed by seed money and kept afloat by the state.
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