Facebook shared user data with four Chinese companies including Huawei, a telecommunications group with ties to the country’s government, a revelation that has put political pressure on the US group to explain how it protected users’ privacy.
The world’s largest social media network had data partnerships with 60 device makers to help them build tailored apps that showed “Facebook-like experiences”, The New York Times reported earlier this week.
Facebook has now confirmed that Huawei was one of the device makers, alongside other Chinese manufacturers Lenovo, OPPO and TCL and companies based elsewhere including Apple, BlackBerry, Samsung, and Amazon.