Is 2019 the year you should finally quit Facebook? | Arwa Mahdawi

Deleting your Facebook account isn’t a bad New Year resolution – the company has proven yet again it violated public trust Prepare yourself... thumbnail 1 summary

Deleting your Facebook account isn’t a bad New Year resolution – the company has proven yet again it violated public trust

Prepare yourself for an overwhelming sense of deja vu: another Facebook privacy “scandal” is upon us.

A New York Times investigation has found that Facebook gave Netflix, Spotify and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) the ability to read, write and delete users’ private messages. The Times investigation, based on hundreds of pages of internal Facebook documents, also found that Facebook gave 150 partners more access to user data than previously disclosed. Microsoft, Sony and Amazon, for example, could obtain the contact information of their users’ friends.

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from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2SbHJQ8

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