Netflix Denies Exploiting Its Alleged Ability To Read, Write, And Delete Facebook Users' Private Messages - Tubefilter
A partnership between Netflix and Facebook reportedly gave the on-demand video streaming giant the ability to read, write, and delete users’ private Facebook messages — something it denies ever exploiting, or asking for in the first place. From 2014 to 2015, Netflix had a feature that let its users recommend shows and movies to their Facebook friends using Facebook’s Messenger function, a recent New York Times report alleges. Because of this feature, Netflix was one of three companies (the other two are Spotify and the Royal Bank of Canada) Facebook granted a heightened level of access to users’ data. The report is based on hundreds of internal Facebook documents generated by Facebook in 2017 and obtained by the Times. It further alleges that Facebook engaged in data-sharing deals that benefited more than 150 companies by giving out users’ data (but Netflix, Spotify, and the Royal Bank of Canada were the only ones to receive such a staggering depth of access). A partnership between Netflix and Fac
19 Dec 2018 ... ... and Facebook reportedly gave the on-demand video streaming giant the ability to read, write, and delete users' private Facebook messages ...