Facebook to Continue Sharing User Data With Apple, Amazon, Others

Facebook will continue sharing user data with Apple, Amazon, Tobii, Mozilla, Alibaba and Opera, it said in another round of responses to Congress involving CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s April testimony (see 1806120038). Facebook’s data-sharing agreements were criticized in June, with lawmakers saying Zuckerberg wasn't forthcoming enough (see 1806080045). Facebook submitted some 750 pages of responses to the House Commerce Committee, in addition to 500 pages to the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. The company said it discontinued 38 of the 52 partnerships in question, which included deals with AT&T, Huawei, Microsoft, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and Yahoo. Full partnerships will continue with Apple, Amazon and Tobii through October, but Mozilla, Alibaba and Opera won't have access to friend data, Facebook said. It said it compiled the list of partnerships “to the best of our ability.” Ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., said that raises more questions: “It’s disconcerting that four months after this scandal became public Facebook still has no idea how many others have its users’ data and how that data is being used today.” Monday, the platform didn’t comment.