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Facebook has entered into a data-sharing partnership with 52 technology companies, including Chinese companies like Alibaba, Huawei, Lenovo and Oppo, said the social networking giant in its latest response to the Energy Committee and of the Chamber of Representatives. ] In its 747-page response to questions raised by the committee, Facebook said that it had already ended partnerships with 38 of them with seven others that will expire in July and one more in October this year, reported Engadget 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.
He put in place stricter sharing controls in 2014 and gave third-party app developers a year to comply with the new rules.
However, 61 companies have had up to six months of overtime to reduce their data collection practices, says the report.
There are concerns that Facebook uses semantics to share data beyond a Federal Trade Commission. Engadget decree stipulated that the site had to obtain permission before collecting more data than allowed a person's privacy settings
but in his new response, Facebook claimed that it was not violating not the decree.
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