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Facebook Discloses Data-Sharing with Chinese Phone Makers

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Facebook on Wednesday confirmed four Chinese device makers were among those that had broad access to customer data under a program spotlighted in a New York Times story last weekend. Among them was Huawei, which has close ties to the Chinese government and has been cited by U.S. officials as a national security threat.

The phone makers had access to the Facebook data as part of a program that let them build Facebook interactions into their devices. There is no evidence the Chinese firms or any other companies misused that information, which Facebook says was governed by strict contracts. But Facebook's recent record of third-party data misuse, exemplified in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, has left it with less credibility in this new crisis.

https://www.axios.com/facebook-has-...654-0cbe43e7-fd00-4cbc-abcf-9e481c161fdc.html
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So this development begs a new question; is there any shady company that Facebook won't share it's user's data with?
 
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