Facebook allowed at least 60 device makers like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, and BlackBerry, to access not only users’ data but their friends’ data too without obtaining consent. If the accusations – which Facebook denies – are true, then Facebook may have breached an agreement it made the FTC in 2011 as well as a privacy pledge it made to users in 2014. Oh, and Zuck may even have lied to Congress.
According to a report by the New York Times, Facebook failed to obtain explicit consent before giving 60 device manufacturers access to the personal data of users and their friends. The partnerships with companies like Apple, Amazon, Samsung and BlackBerry allowed those companies to use Facebook features like posting a photo, messaging and “like” buttons without using the Facebook app.
