Facebook got in hot water this spring over its evidently cavalier attitude toward the private data of its users, after it emerged that Cambridge Analytica accessed and weaponized the data of up to 87 million users through an online quiz taken by only about 300,000 people. But Facebook also had undisclosed arrangements with at least 60 device makers that gave Samsung, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, BlackBerry, and other companies access to large amounts of data on users and their friends, The New York Times reports. Facebook argued that these agreements, which it began signing in 2007 and started winding down in April, did not violate its terms of service or the 2011 consent agree it reached with the Federal Trade Commission because it considers the makers of hardware like smartphones and tablets "service providers" and an extension of Facebook, not third parties.

 

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