Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

Of course they did. Of course they will continue. Of course, no one cares enough to make them stop.

Facebook has reached data-sharing partnerships with at least 60 device makers — including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung — over the last decade, starting before Facebook apps were widely available on smartphones, company officials said. The deals allowed Facebook to expand its reach and let device makers offer customers popular features of the social network, such as messaging, “like” buttons and address books.