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In its report, the New York Times also stressed that some Facebook partners such as Spotify, Netflix, Microsoft or Yahoo even have access to and edit users' personal messages. Specifically:
Spotify and Netflix representatives confirmed that they did not know they had unauthorized access to user data as mentioned by the New York Times.
Facebook also said that their data partners strictly adhere to user privacy terms. Facebook's cooperation with different companies is intended to help users use this social network on both devices and platforms not supported by Facebook.
Satterfield, Facebook's Director of Public Policy and Privacy, said the company is working hard to regain trust from its users by telling them about better personal information, clearer policies.
Facebook has faced many scandals this year. The biggest is the disclosure of personal data leakage of 87 million users with the Cambridge Analytica data company in March. And most recently, the existence of a vulnerability makes millions of users' private photos possible. shared with more than 1,500 third-party applications.
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