Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, Samsung, Microsoft, Blackberry and about 56 other manufacturers of mobile phones, tablets, etc., had unauthorized access to your data from Facebook, according to the famous American newspaper New York Times. Based on an investigation made by the publication, all these producers would have had the opportunity to access a certain type of data with the consent of the users and of Facebook, but they would also have accessed data that they were not supposed to see.
Facebook has confirmed that 10 years ago it concluded agreements with 60 manufacturers of mobile phones, tablets, etc., to give them access to APIs of the social network, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and Facebook being some of the best known . Facebook says that these companies received access to certain APIs to be able to create special applications for users to use, but that their access to data would have been limited, although it seems that things were not quite like that.
Apple and Samsung have seen YOUR DATA from Facebook
A reporter managed to exploit Blackberry Hub to find out data about his friends that he wasn't supposed to see, but also data from 300.000 other people who were friends of his friends, his friends. This data also included their interests, events they went to, plus many other details that could be used to influence the lives of those people through advertisements, and Facebook's rules of use clearly prohibit this.
"Facebook has reached data-sharing partnerships with at least 60 device makers — including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung — over the last decade. Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users' friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders. Some device makers could retrieve personal information even from users' friends who believed they had barred any sharing."
Facebook defends itself and says that the access to the data was obtained by the companies only if the users chose to give them access to it, but we already know from other scandals that people's access is not necessarily needed to see the data. Apple and Samsung are the "headliners" in this scandal because they are two of the most well-known companies, but is anyone still surprised by the fact that data from Facebook was accessed in an unauthorized manner?
