Facebook has said that user data was shared with 52 companies, including Chinese companies, Social Media Vishal created a data-sharing partnership with cellphone makers, which gave them details of users and even their friends. .
The acceptance of the social media giant came on Friday evening as part of more than 700 page document dumps to the US House Energy and Commerce Committee. The committee released information publicly on Saturday, The Hill said.
Facebook yesterday unearthed a partnership with British political consultancy firm Cambridge Analyte to restore a new light on its behavior regarding customer data, where the figures of 87 million people were shared improperly.
The list includes major technical companies like Apple, Amazon, Blackberry and Samsung. Other firms included in the list include Alibaba, Qualcomm and Pantek. But the list also includes four Chinese firms, which have been flagged as national security threats by US intelligence, Hwy, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL.
Facebook said that it shared data with companies in an effort to improve its integration and user experience in platforms and devices, noting that its partnership was established before Apple's smartphone running on Apple and Google's highly-powered operating system Because they were now, the report said, the report said.
Facebook wrote, "People used to go online using different types of capabilities, with different types of text phones, feature phones and early smartphones."
"In that environment, the demand for internet services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube exceeded our ability to make versions of the services that work on every phone and operating system of our industry."
Facebook said that it has finished 38 of 52 partnerships and will close the remaining people till July.
It has been said in the documents that due to the initial failure of the partnership it resulted in its focus on the shared data between the applications made on its developer platform, which was framed by the product area, which was compiled by Cambridge Analyte.
Sharing Facebook data of user data with developers seems to be less governed than its data sharing with comparatively known device manufacturers and software companies.
Still, MPs have expressed concern about the company's data sharing agreements with Chinese firms.
During the documentary evidence and afterwards, after providing the questions raised by MPs.
Frank Paylon, the House Democracy Representative of House Energy and Commerce, has said, "After the initial review, I am concerned that Facebook's answers raise more questions than their answer."
Last month, The New York Times reported that Facebook, founded in 2004, has reached a data-sharing partnership with at least 60 device manufacturers including Apple, Amazon, Blackberry, Microsoft and Samsung in the last decade.
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