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An investigative editor @NYTMetro. michael.laforgia@nytimes.com; michael.laforgia@protonmail.com. Former Florida man.

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    Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

    We wanted to learn more about what kinds of data Facebook makes available to “partners” that manufacture phones and other devices.

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      2. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        We were curious because Facebook was supposed to have made it impossible for third-party developers to access data from a user’s friends in 2014-15.

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      3. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        So we plugged my Facebook account info into a 5-year-old BlackBerry device. My colleague @gabrieldance used a computer program to monitor the network traffic — what the phone was asking for and getting.

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      4. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        Right away, and even though we had deleted the Facebook app from the phone, it started sucking down lots of my Facebook information. It pulled in my name and global user id — which can be synced up with all kinds of other, non-FB databases to get details about me.

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      5. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        It got my email address and cellphone number, my location, my profile picture, both sides of my private messages, and the names and user ids of the people I exchanged messages with. (Sorry, Mom.)

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      6. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        Then we went a little further. We found out the phone could get the user ids, birthdays and work and education histories of nearly all my friends, even though access to such info was supposed to have been walled off years ago. It could also tell which of my friends was online.

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      7. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        (Remember, this isn’t Facebook making the calls for this data; it’s a device manufactured by an outside company, using an app built by that company, that Facebook has given special access to.)

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      8. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        My friends could not have stopped the device from snagging their information even by going to their settings and disabling all sharing with third-parties, an option known as turning off the platform.

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      9. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        So we could be sure about that, we had one of them turn off the platform, THEN add in new profile information for the first time, and then set it to be shared only with friends.

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      10. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        Right away, the third-party BlackBerry device pulled down all the information we had disallowed any third party apps from obtaining.

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      11. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        Then we watched the device go even further. Turns out it can jump from my modest 550-something friend list to access the names and all-important global user ids for most of my friends’ friends — a total of about 295,000 people.

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      12. Michael LaForgia‏Verified account @laforgia_ 4 Jun 2018

        For more, including Facebook’s explanation for this, check out our story:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/03/technology/facebook-device-partners-users-friends-data.html …

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