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As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants - The New York Times
'Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages. '
'The special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of pages of Facebook documents obtained by The New York Times. '
'Facebook users connected with friends across different devices and websites. '
'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. '
'But Facebook also assumed extraordinary power over the personal information of its 2.2 billion users — control it has wielded with little transparency or outside oversight. '
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'Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages. '
'The special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of pages of Facebook documents obtained by The New York Times. '
'Facebook users connected with friends across different devices and websites. '
'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. '
'But Facebook also assumed extraordinary power over the personal information of its 2.2 billion users — control it has wielded with little transparency or outside oversight. '
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