2018-12-19

If there aren't enough reasons to distrust social media companies ...

... here's another one.

"According to the NYT, these businesses became exempt from standard privacy rules due to these inside deals. Microsoft's Bing was able to see the names of almost all Facebook user friends without consent; Netflix and Spotify were able to read private messages; Yahoo could view Facebook friend post streams, and Amazon was able to obtain usernames and contact information through friend connections."


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