Facebook announced that it will no longer allow Microsoft and Sony to access Facebook user friends related data

A few days ago, the social network giant Facebook has announced that it will no longer allow Microsoft and Sony to access Facebook-based friends’ data and disable related permissions. Previously, Facebook was found to have violated the rules since the Cambridge analysis incident. Facebook even publicly sold user data including the network of relationships between users, What’s more, you can directly view the private message record between the user and the friend. It can be said that all kinds of data on the Facebook user on the platform are obtained by other companies.

According to previous reports, Microsoft’s workplace social network leader is buying user data and then used to promote users or attract users to register. However, this time, Facebook’s disabled interface is Microsoft’s Bing search. Bing search originally purchased the user’s data through the official channel of Facebook. It is reported that Bing search can view the names of almost all Facebook user friends without the user’s consent, and the number of users involved is also hundreds of millions.

Sony is able to obtain user data because users can associate social network information, and Sony can use this service to obtain the relationship between users and their friends.

Earlier, the US Federal Trade Commission announced a fine of $5 billion for Facebook, a penalty for leaking hundreds of millions of user information on Facebook. In addition to these penalties, Facebook must also immediately improve various privacy issues. Facebook officially stated that the settlement agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission required the company to make fundamental changes in its way of working to protect user data.