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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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