Facebook gave preferential data access to certain companies: documents

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Facebook gave preferential data access to certain companies: documents

Limited services for most others.

Facebook gave some companies, including Netflix and Airbnb, preferential access to user data in 2015 as it limited services for most others, according to company emails and presentations released by a British lawmaker. The 223 pages of communication from 2012 to 2015 between high-level Facebook ...

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