Documents seized from Six4Three, a tech company that is suing Facebook in the Facebook over its 2015 privacy reforms, were published on 5 December on the website of the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee, which is investigating “disinformation and fake news”. The documents reveal that Facebook provided access to users’ friends to companies including Airbnb and Netflix under “whitelisting agreements”, and linked such access “to the financial value of the [app] developers' relationship with Facebook". The company also adopted “aggressive positions against apps", including hindering users from learning about controversial changes to its Android app.
Documents seized from Six4Three, a tech company that is suing Facebook in the US over its 2015 privacy reforms, were published on 5 December on the website of the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee, which is investigating “disinformation and fake news”. The documents reveal that Facebook provided access to users’ friends to companies including Airbnb and Netflix under “whitelisting agreements”, and linked such access “to the financial value of the [app] developers' relationship with Facebook". The company also adopted “aggressive positions against apps", including hindering users from learning about controversial changes to its Android app.