Facebook had a data sharing partnership with 52 technology companies

Facebook has entered into a data sharing partnership with 52 technology companies, including Chinese companies such as Alibaba, Huawei, Lenovo and Oppo, said the social networking giant in its latest response to the Energy and Commerce Committee of the House of Commons. representatives.

In his 747-page response to the issues raised by the committee, Facebook said that it had already terminated partnerships with 38 of them, with seven more to expire in July and one more in October this year, Engadget reported on Saturday.

However, Facebook said that three partnerships – involving Apple, Amazon and Tobii, an accessibility app that allows people with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) to access Facebook – should continue to beyond October of this year.

Facebook said it had introduced sharper sharing controls in 2014 and gave third-party app developers a year to comply with the new rules.

However, 61 companies got up to six months of overtime to reduce their data collection practices, the report says.

Facebook uses semantics to share data beyond a US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decree requiring the site to obtain permission before collecting more data than allowed by the parameters confidentiality of a person.

But in his new response, Facebook claimed that he was not violating the decree.