The New York Times investigation revealed that it had itself been one of the companies granted access to some of the Facebook user data. The information, Apple says, never went to its servers, instead simply sitting on the iPhone of the Facebook user, allowing them to check upcoming events without opening the Facebook app. Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada, for instance, were granted access to read, write and delete private messages on the Facebook platform. Netflix replied to the story in a tweet, saying that it “never asked for, or accessed, anyone’s private messages. “We have to seriously challenge the claim by Facebook that they are not selling user data,” he added.

Source: The Guardian December 19, 2018 14:42 UTC