Facebook gave companies deeper access to user data than it let on: report

Facebook's year of horror is dragging right to the very end.

A New York Times report revealed just how loose the social network's data sharing practices were, where it gave third-parties deeper access to its site's 2.2 billion users than it previously let on.

The report on Facebook's partnerships with other companies was gathered from interviews with 50 former employees and documents obtained by the Times. 

It claimed Microsoft's Bing search engine was allowed to view the names of a Facebook user's friends without consent, while profiles of Facebook users were built on Microsoft servers. Read more...