Facebook shared private data with 61 companies

July 2, 2018 Tech

Facebook continued to share data with more than 60 companies despite concerns about the quiz app commissioned by Cambridge Analytica.

The social network gave 61 companies a year to wean themselves off the rich data provided by Facebook through its API, including Nike, UPS, dating app Hinge, a social marketing service, a Russian internet giant and avariety of news networks after it grew concerned that developers could be abusing the function.

This conflicts with repeated assurances from Mark Zuckerberg since the data scandal came to light earlier this year. The Facebook founder has stood in front of European Parliament and US lawmakers to insist that the function which allowed apps to receive detailed, personal information including photos and friends lists had been shut down in April 2014.

The documents presented to Congress over the weekendreveal that in addition to the companies granted a cooling off period, five apps had access to users’ friend’s data. This included Activision, the games published behind the Call of Duty series and streaming apps PeekSocial and Fun2Shoot, along with defunct apps Golden Union Co, quiz app IQ Zone.

The documents state that the true scale of data collection by rogue apps may never become apparent, and the above list was comprehensive only to the “best of our ability”, adding that early records may have already been deleted from the system.

Facebook data sharing | Which companies had access to private information?

ABCSocial
ABC Television Network 2.
Actiance
Adium
Anschutz Entertainment Group
AOL
Arktan / Janrain
Audi
biNu
Cerulean Studios
Coffee Meets Bagel
DataSift
Dingtone
Double Down Interactive
Flowics
Zauber Labs
Garena
Global Relay Communications
Hearsay Systems
Hinge
HiQ International AB
Hootsuite
Krush Technologies
LiveFyre / Adobe Systems
Mail.ru
MiggoChat
Monterosa Productions Limited
never.no AS
Nike
Nimbuzz
Nissan/Airbiquity Inc.
Oracle
Panasonic – 96
Playtika
Postano, TigerLogic Corporation
Raidcall
RealNetworks, Inc
RegED / Stoneriver RegED
Reliance/Saavn
Rovi
Salesforce/Radian6
SeaChange International
Serotek Corp.
Shape Services
Smarsh
Snap
Social SafeGuard
Socialeyes LLC
SocialNewsdesk
Socialware/Proofpoint
SoundayMusic
Spotify
Spredfast
Sprinklr/Sprinklr Japan
Storyful Limited/News Corp
Tagboard
Telescope
Tradable Bits, TradableBits Media Inc.
UPS
Vidpresso
Vizrt Group AS
Wayin

Since April 2014, developers for new apps have to submit proposals for review before they are given access to the API. Facebook said it had rejected more than half of the apps between April 2014 and 2018, including a second app created by Aleksandr Kogan.

Kogan, a Cambridge University professor, created the simple quiz app that harvested the information of 87m Facebook users, which was later passed onto political campaigning group Cambridge Analytica.

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Telegraph

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Facebook shared private data with 61 companies

Facebook data sharing | Which companies had access to private information?

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