Facebook has been exposed to provide user privacy to Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers
Technology’s social networking giant, Facebook, has fallen into the storm of unprecedented public opinion in the company’s history because of unauthorized disclosure of user data and information and violations of public privacy rights. The scandal of Facebook has not ended. According to the latest news, Facebook has provided user information, including private schedules, to a large number of mobile phone manufacturers around the world over the years. Recently, Apple Inc., which criticized Facebook, is also one of the vendors that obtain information.
According to the New York Times disclosed on June 3, in the past many years, Facebook has signed an agreement with about 60 equipment manufacturers to provide them with user privacy information, these manufacturers include Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Amazon Wait.
Earlier this year, after the Facebook scandal broke out in the British Cambridge analysis company, a total of 22 of the aforementioned cooperation were suspended, but the remaining cooperation continued to take effect.
According to reports, after the Cambridge analysis scandal occurred, Facebook had externally claimed that similar user privacy information sharing had ceased after 2015, but this did not include mobile phone manufacturers.
Facebook said to the media that they strictly restrict the use of mobile phone manufacturers’ private information. In addition, there have been no cases where mobile phone manufacturers misuse user information. It is not yet clear what information Facebook has provided to mobile phone manufacturers.
An Apple spokesperson said that Apple needs to use user information from Facebook to provide certain features, such as uploading photos without opening the Facebook client. However, last September, Apple cut off the data sharing pipeline.
It is reported that Facebook’s personal privacy policy mentioned that it will provide access to user information to device manufacturers such as mobile phones, including interpersonal relationships, schedules, religious and political information among different users.
In addition, although some Facebook users did not choose to disclose data to the outside world, this data can still be obtained by mobile phone manufacturers.
As we all know, after the Facebook scandal broke out, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook CEO Zuckerberg had a verbal battle. Cook criticized Facebook for not protecting user’s privacy. In the face of Cook’s criticism, Zuckerberg thought that his statement was very grim and not consistent with the facts.
Obviously, the New York Times report shows that Apple itself has obtained a lot of user information from Facebook, which affects how many users have both Apple and Facebook accounts at the same time.
In terms of personal privacy protection, Apple generally gains recognition in the industry and consumers. Online advertising is not an important Apple business. Apple generally does not collect user information and provide it to advertisers. Cook and others also criticized Google and other peers for collecting user privacy.
In addition, recently foreign media reported that Apple has begun to pay attention to the advertising business. Whether they will change the tradition and start collecting large-scale user information is still unknown.
