Facebook Allowed Netflix, Spotify, And A Bank To Read And Delete Users’ Private Messages; The social network also allowed Microsoft’s search engine Bing to see the names of nearly all users’ friends without their consent, according to a report.

by AssuredlyAThrowAway via NYT: For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records …

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Yet another reason to delete Facebook

From ZeroHedge: Facebook has been giving user data to at least 60 major device manufacturers over the last decade – including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung – as part of a data-sharing partnership program which allowed the companies to integrate …

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