It’s come to attention that Facebook allowed some of the biggest technology companies in the world to have greater access to people’s data than it let on.
No little thing, Facebook is home to around 2.27 billion monthly active users, after having surpassed 1 billion users six years ago. Privacy is important no matter how many users there are, but for a site that reaches as many people as Facebook does, the importance of user privacy (and the trust that comes with it) is heightened.
In this case, the folks at The New York Times viewed hundreds of pages of internal Facebook documents and conducted interviews with dozens of former employees, and discovered that big tech firms like Amazon and Microsoft have not had to abide by standard privacy rules.
