{"id":263019,"date":"2018-06-04T10:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T08:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=263019"},"modified":"2018-06-04T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T08:57:47","slug":"facebook-shared-user-data-with-apple-and-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/263019-facebook-shared-user-data-with-apple-and-samsung.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook shared user data with Apple and Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Facebook apps were widely available on smartphones, the company struck deals to share user data with at least 60 device manufacturers &#8211; including\u00a0Apple, Amazon, and Samsung &#8211; the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/06\/03\/technology\/facebook-device-partners-users-friends-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the deals\u00a0let Facebook expand its reach, and gave manufacturers access to popular Facebook features such as messaging, like buttons, and contact information that could be synchronised with address books.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the Facebook Login feature previously available to app developers, which led to the Cambridge Analytica saga,\u00a0Facebook gave device makers\u00a0access to the data of users&#8217; friends without explicit consent.<\/p>\n<p>In certain instances, manufacturers could retrieve personal information from users&#8217; friends who believed they had barred any sharing.<\/p>\n<p>This sharing of user data continued even after Facebook declared that it would stop sharing such data with outsiders, according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>It added that most of the data sharing agreements remain in place, but Facebook has started shutting them down after the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/255303-cambridge-analytica-refutes-allegations-against-it.html\">controversy<\/a><\/strong> around Cambridge Analytica was exposed.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/262393-facebook-didnt-see-cambridge-analytica-leak-coming.html\">Facebook didn&#8217;t see Cambridge Analytica leak coming<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company struck deals to share user data with at least 60 device manufacturers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[723,605,97,161,123,645],"class_list":["post-263019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-amazon","tag-apple","tag-blackberry","tag-facebook","tag-microsoft","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263057,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263019\/revisions\/263057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}