Facebook has shared data with 52 companies, including Chinese companies: Report

Facebook said it was sharing user data with 52 companies, including Chinese companies, just weeks after the social media giant formed data-sharing partnerships with mobile phone manufacturers. giving access to the details of users and even their friends. 19659002] The recognition of the social media giant is part of a more than 700-page document filed before the US Committee on Energy and Commerce on Friday night. The committee released the news publicly on Saturday, reported The Hill.

Facebook revealed yesterday that the partnerships shed new light on its customer data behavior following a scandal involving the British policy consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, where data from 87 million people were incorrectly shared. The list included major technology companies like Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry and Samsung. Alibaba, Qualcomm and Pantech are among the other companies on the list. But the list also includes four Chinese companies that the US intelligence services regard as threats to national security: Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL.

Facebook shares its data with companies to improve its integrations and user experience. , noting that its partnerships have been established before smartphones running on Apple's and Google's high-powered operating systems are as ubiquitous as they are now, the report said: " People went online using a wide variety of text phones only "In this environment, the demand for Internet services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube has exceeded the ability of our industry to build versions of our services that worked on all phones and operating systems. "

Facebook said that it ended 38 of its 52 partnerships and will close those remaining in July.

He said in the documents that his initial omission from The Partnerships resulted from the fact that Emphasis was placed on the data shared between the applications created on its development platform and the product domain implied by Cambridge Analytica

The sharing of user data with developers seems less controlled than the sharing of data

Yet lawmakers have expressed concern about the company's data sharing agreements with Chinese companies.

The documents provide a follow-up of questions asked by lawmakers during and after "After a first review, I am concerned that Facebook's answers raise more questions than they answer, "said the main Democratic representative of House Energy and Commerce, Frank Pallone,

. which was founded in 2004, has reached data sharing partnerships with at least 60 device manufacturers, including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung over the last decade.