Facebook reveals its data-sharing VIPs
'Reviewed and approved'
As part of a separate scheme, Facebook allowed certain hardware and software companies to access its members' personal details in order to build their own "versions of Facebook or Facebook features".
Some of these "partnerships" are still active despite claims that they might breach privacy commitments made by Facebook to US watchdogs and the public.
Companies on this list that had not previously been named but no longer have such extensive access include:
- Dell
- Huawei
- Kodak
- LG
- O2
- Orange
- Virgin Mobile
- Warner Bros
In addition, Facebook said that it continued to provide access to its data to 14 companies.
Among those that had not earlier been identified are:
- Alibaba
- Nokia
- Vodafone
- Yahoo
- Zing Mobile
Facebook said its partnerships and engineering teams had reviewed and approved all the data-sharing agreements and had found no evidence of abuse.
The technology company also provided an update on its efforts to identify other Cambridge-Analytica-like situations, in which data about its users had been obtained "through improper means".
It said it had suspended about 200 apps to date, relating to five developers.
However, it added that many of the apps involved had been described as "tests", and never released to the public.
In addition, it said a further 14 apps linked to the Canadian data analytics company AggregateIQ (AIQ) had been suspended pending further investigations
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