Skip Navigation

Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages

arstechnica.com Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit

Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.

Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit

in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."

Surprising? No. Appalling? Yes.

33

You're viewing a single thread.