Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much

Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon immediately took the review down and told Santiago she had “violated its policies.” Santiago re-read her review, didn’t see anything objectionable about it, so she tried to post it again. “You’re not eligible to review this product,” an Amazon prompt informed her https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-facebook-reportedly-had-a-secret-data-sharin-1831192148

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Facebook said in a blog post Wednesday it allowed other big tech companies to read users' private messages, but denies it did so without consent. The post came in response to a New York Times investigation published Tuesday that said Facebook granted tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix and Spotify special access to users’ personal data including private messages and contact details. Facebook said it enabled partner companies like Spotify to access users' private messages after a user had signed into Facebook through the partner company's app.