{"id":443316,"date":"2018-06-08T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=443316"},"modified":"2018-06-08T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T03:55:00","slug":"facebook-gave-some-developers-access-to-users-friends-after-policy-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=443316","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Gave Some Developers Access To Users&#039; Friends After Policy Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook granted a select group of companies special access to its users&#8217; records even after the point in 2015 that the company has claimed it stopped sharing such data with app developers. USA Today reports: According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited court documents, unnamed Facebook officials and other unnamed sources, Facebook made special agreements with certain companies called &#8220;whitelists,&#8221; which gave them access to extra information about a user&#8217;s friends. This includes data such as phone numbers and &#8220;friend links,&#8221; which measure the degree of closeness between users and their friends. These deals were made separately from the company&#8217;s data-sharing agreements with device manufacturers such as Huawei, which Facebook disclosed earlier this week after a New York Times report on the arrangement. Facebook said following the WSJ report it inked deals with a small number of developers that gave them access to users&#8217; friends after the more restrictive policy went into effect.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Facebook+Gave+Some+Developers+Access+To+Users'+Friends+After+Policy+Changed%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2Jy2PEg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/twitter_icon_large-326.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F18%2F06%2F09%2F0354216%2Ffacebook-gave-some-developers-access-to-users-friends-after-policy-changed%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/facebook_icon_large-163.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nobg\" href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/18\/06\/09\/0354216\/facebook-gave-some-developers-access-to-users-friends-after-policy-changed?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gplus-16-163.png\" alt=\"Share on Google+\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/18\/06\/09\/0354216\/facebook-gave-some-developers-access-to-users-friends-after-policy-changed?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Slashdot\/~3\/dETf7sHu5Po\/facebook-gave-some-developers-access-to-users-friends-after-policy-changed\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Gave Some Developers Access To Users&#8217; Friends After Policy Changed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook granted a select group of companies special access to its users&#8217; records even after the point in 2015 that the company has claimed it stopped sharing such data with app developers. 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