WASHINGTON(NYTimes): 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 and interviews.
The
special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of pages of Facebook documents
obtained by The New York Times. The records, generated in 2017 by the company’s
internal system for tracking partnerships, provide the most complete picture
yet of the social network’s data-sharing practices. They also underscore how
personal data has become the most prized commodity of the digital age, traded
on a vast scale by some of the most powerful …read more
Source: The Frontier Post
