NYT investigation: Internal Facebook records show that the company gave Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix and other tech giants far more intrusive access to your personal data than it ever disclosed nyti.ms/2Cmpm5q
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Here are some key takeaways on how Facebook gave some of the world’s largest companies more intrusive access to your personal data than it has disclosed. nyti.ms/2QEvPSk
Here are some key takeaways on how Facebook gave some of the world’s largest companies more intrusive access to your personal data than it has disclosed. nyti.ms/2QEvPSk
Here are a few details on how we reported this investigation nyti.ms/2Lr785I 
As recently as last year, Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada were allowed to read, write and delete users’ private messages — privileges that appeared to go beyond what the companies needed to integrate Facebook into their systems. nyti.ms/2Lr785I
Spotify, which could view messages of 70 million+ users a month, still offers the option to share music through Facebook Messenger. Netflix and the Canadian bank no longer needed access to messages because they deactivated features that incorporated it. nyti.ms/2Lr785I
Netflix said it didn’t have access to Facebook messages, but Facebook documents show Netflix had the ability to do just that. Netflix then acknowledged that it did access personal messages, but only for sending and receiving movie and TV recommendations. nyti.ms/2Lr785I
These were not the only companies that had special access longer than they needed it. Yahoo, The New York Times and others could still get Facebook users’ personal information in 2017. nyti.ms/2Lr785
Facebook empowered Apple to hide from Facebook users all indicators that its devices were asking for data. Apple devices had access to the numbers and calendar entries of people who changed their account settings to disable all sharing, the records show. nyti.ms/2Lr785I
In 2014, Facebook ended instant personalization and walled off access to friends’ information. But in a previously unreported agreement, Facebook continued allowing Bing, Pandora and Rotten Tomatoes access to much of the same data. nyti.ms/2Lr785I
Facebook records show the Russian search giant Yandex had access in 2017 to Facebook’s unique user IDs even after Facebook stopped sharing them with other applications, citing privacy risks. nyti.ms/2Lr785I
Facebook permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer, despite public statements that it had stopped that type of sharing years ago. nyti.ms/2Lr785I
Among our revelations was that Facebook obtained data from multiple partners for a controversial friend-suggestion tool called “People You May Know.” nyti.ms/2Lr785I
The documents raise questions about whether Facebook ran afoul of a 2011 consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission that barred the social network from sharing user data without explicit permission. nyti.ms/2Lr785I
“This is just giving third parties permission to harvest data without you being informed of it or giving consent to it,” said David Vladeck, who formerly ran the FTC’s consumer protection bureau. nyti.ms/2Lr785I
Here's a closer look at 5 ways Facebook shared your personal data with partner companies including Yahoo, Netflix and Spotify nyti.ms/2Co9Bep
These details of Facebook's deals with business partners prompted a fresh round of rebukes from legislators nyti.ms/2Cp7cAa
