Facebook Allegedly Shares Your Private Messages with Netflix, Huawei and Others

New York Times recently reports that the social media giant, Facebook, gave companies like Spotify, Netflix and Microsoft access to users' private data without their knowledge.

Another allegation says that Russian search engine Yandex and China's Huawei also had access to data through partnership agreements as late as 2017.

According to the NYT,  "For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records and interviews."

"Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."