What We Know About Facebook’s Latest Data Scandal
A new report raises questions about just how much Facebook data phone manufacturers could access.
A new report in The New York Times contains a startling fact: Working with a 2013 BlackBerry device, a reporter was recently able to use special access Facebook had granted the phone manufacturer to glean some identifying information about 294,258 people.
Facebook said this special access to data existed only . These people were friends of the reporter’s friends—and their information was available to the BlackBerry application, regardless of their Facebook privacy settings. Facebook admitted that it had private data-sharing arrangements with approximately 60 phone manufacturers including players like
