Facebook said Monday that it does not know of any privacy abuse by cellphone makers who years ago were able to gain access to personal data on users and their friends. The social media leader said it “disagreed” with the conclusions of a New York Times report that found that the device makers could access information on Facebook users’ friends without their explicit consent. “Partners could not integrate the user’s Facebook features with their devices without the user’s permission,” he said. “Friends’ information, like photos, was only accessible on devices when people made a decision to share their information with those friends,” he said. But the report raised concerns that massive databases on users and their friends — including personal data and photographs — could be in the hands of device makers as it did with Cambridge Analytica.

Source: Punch June 04, 2018 14:15 UTC