Over the weekend Facebook revealed it’s partnerships with 52 organizations with which it shared user data.
Facebook disclosed the partnerships in a 700 page response to Congress’s House Energy and Commerce Committee. Some of the partnerships had already been uncovered, with the revelation last month of agreements with Apple, Amazon, Samsung and other device manufacturers. But some of the other companies on the list are a little more difficult to explain. For example, according to Politico, Huawei and Alibaba are also on the list.
In the document, Facebook said that 38 out of the 52 data integration partnerships had already ended, seven more will be discontinued by the end of the month, and several more will be shut down in October. Three other partnerships will extend past October — this includes Amazon, Apple, and Tobii, an accessibility app to help those suffering from ALS use Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. Facebook will also continue sharing data with Mozilla, Alibaba, and Opera in order to allow users to receive Facebook notifications in their browsers.
The company also specified that it gave certain apps that had access to user data in the pre-2015 days a six-month leeway period. That means the apps that had access to user’s data did so for six months longer than the company had reported was the cut-off point. These apps apparently include UPS, Audi, and AOL.
Now it seems like Facebook has allowed more unfettered access to your data than it has admitted. The FTC, which is investigating Facebook, is going to have a lot of data to go through.
Here’s the complete list of the partnerships Facebook disclosed on Friday.Company names with * denote that Facebook is still in the process of ending the agreements. Others with ** denote data partnerships that the company will continue without allowing the outside company.
1. Accedo
2. Acer
3. Airtel
4. Alcatel / TCL
5. Alibaba**
6. Amazon*
7. Apple*
8. AT&T
9. Blackberry
10. Dell
11. DNP
12. Docomo
13. Garmin
14. Gemalto*
15. HP / Palm
16. HTC
17. Huawei
18. INQ
19. Kodak
21. MediaTek / Mstar
22. Microsoft
23. Miyowa / Hape Esia
24. Motorola / Lenovo
25. Mozilla**
26. Myriad*
27. Nexian
28. Nokia*
29. Nuance
30. O2
31. Opentech ENG
32. Opera Software**
33. OPPO
34. Orange
35. Pantech
36. PocketNet
37. Qualcomm
38. Samsung*
39. Sony
40. Sprint
41. T-Mobile
42. TIM
43. Tobii*
44. U2topia*
45. Verisign
46. Verizon
47. Virgin Mobile
48. Vodafone*
49. Warner Bros
50. Western Digital
51. Yahoo*
52. Zing Mobile*
