Facebook's stranglehold on Social Media has teens Abandon them in huge numbers, according to Pew Research. The revelation that Facebook Sold User's Data is a Breach of Trust the Public shouldn't stand for. With the initial News still fresh in People's minds, a New York Times Story poured fuel on the fire. This was after the European Commission weren't able to get pressing questions answered properly in late May by Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The New York Times Report revealed that "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.
In interviews with The Times, Facebook was all too eager to Identify other Partners including Apple and Samsung, the World's Two biggest Smartphone makers, and Amazon, which Sells Tablets.
An Apple spokesman said the Company relied on Private Access to Facebook Data for Features that enabled Users to Post Photos to the Social Network without opening the Facebook App, among other things. Apple said its Phones no longer had such access to Facebook as of last September.
So now the Picture App on my Apple Smartphone Opens my Facebook page and allows me to create an album and add the photos.
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 2018.
Some Device Partners can Retrieve Facebook Users' Relationship Status, Religion, Political Leaning, and Upcoming Events, among other Data. Tests by The Times showed that the Partners Requested and Received Data in the same way other Third Parties did.
Facebook's View that the Device Makers are not Outsiders lets the Partners go even further, The Times found. They can obtain Data about a User's Facebook Friends, even those who have Denied Facebook Permission to Share Information with any Third Parties.
"It's like having door locks installed, only to find out that the locksmith also gave keys to all of his friends so they can come in and rifle through your stuff without having to ask you for permission," said Ashkan Soltani, a Research and Privacy Consultant who formerly served as the FTC's Chief Technologist.
Facebook wasted no time going on Defense. Reuters is Reporting that Facebook Inc. on Sunday Rejected Claims by the New York Times that it had Allowed Apple and other Major Device Makers "deep" Access to Users' Personal Data saying any such Links were tightly Controlled and largely subject to Users' Consent.
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