to the new york times device makers with agreements with facebook reportedly include apple amazon blackberry microsoft and samsung among others the agreements with facebook also allow the device makers to obtain personal information about the facebook friends of people who use their devices the times reports that most of the agreements are still in effect although facebook did end some starting in april the month after the cambridge analytic a scandal. the agreements may violate facebook's two thousand and eleven consent to create with the federal trade commission which was meant to protect users a facebook vice president defended the agreement says consistent with the consent decree and facebook's own stated policies that same representative also said device makers unlike at makers are considered service providers and therefore they're not subject to the limits of the two thousand and eleven consent decree. u.s. tech giant google has moved to preempt a growing rebellion among their own workers by not renewing project maven the project was an alliance with the u.s. department of defense to apply artif

to the new york times device makers with agreements with facebook reportedly include apple amazon blackberry microsoft and samsung among others the agreements with facebook also allow the device makers to obtain personal information about the facebook friends of people who use their devices the times reports that most of the agreements are still in effect although facebook did and some starting in april the month after the cambridge analytic a scandal. the agreements may violate facebook's two thousand and eleven consent decree with the federal trade commission which was meant to protect users a facebook vice president defended the agreement says consistent with the consent decree and facebook's own stated policies that same representative also said device makers unlike app makers are considered service providers and therefore they're not subject to the limits of the two thousand and eleven consent decree. u.s. tech giant google has moved to preempt a growing rebellion among their own workers by not renewing project maven the project was an alliance with the u.s. department of defense to apply artific

at least 60 mobile device manufacturers and shared user information with the ke of apple, amazon, blackberry, microsoft, and sam sung. and just today on the subject of china, "the new york times" is reporting that facebook also partnered with four chinese electronic manufacturers including huawei which is known to have close ties with the chinese government and may pose a national security threat to the u.s. according to the times, these companies had access to vast amount of facebook's user data, including the information of friends who may not have provided proper consent to access and share share personal and their personally identifiable information. madam president, we don't know all the facts yet, but it's clear what facebook claims and what "the new york times" is reporting, it doesn't end up squaring up. as a result, the chairman of the commerce committee, senator thune, and i as ranking member wrote a letter to mark zuckerberg asking that he answer a number of questions about "the new york times" reporting. specifically, senator thune and i want to know who exactly these business partners are

de with a lot of smart phone and tablet phone, tablet computer manufacturers like apple, like amazon, microsoft, blackberrysamsung and others. the reason why, facebook gave them access to user data, says "the new york times" so that they could help build better apps and better programs to let user use their phonesnd facebook on those particular products. the issue is they may have also let user data into the hands of those hardware providers. now facebook is in the process right now of still trying to deal with the cambridge analytical scandal but it's certainly something where a lot of people are calling more attention to the fact a lot of these softwaremakers, especially in social media, are letting data out there. >> facebook said no one had this information but they did? >> facebook says that they let these partners have this kind of data but it's only for using -- it's only for use in creating applications or other facebook-like experiences. facebook did respond to "the new york times" story on sunday in a facebook blog post saying these kinds of partnerships exist so these hardware manufacturers can

the social media platform shared data with 60 device makers including amazon, apple, blackberry, microsoft facebook was widely available. the company says 22 of the deals have now ended. now, the deals allowed facebook to expand its reach and device makers could offer customers popular facebook features such as messaging and the like button. those partners could also retrieve a user's information including relationship status, religion, political leaning and upcoming events. the times reports that facebook users or facebook allowed those companies to access data on a user's friends without their explicit content. -- consent. but facebook denies that. partners could not integrate a person's information with their devices without their permission. th only accessible on mation devices when a person shared it with those friends. facebook says some partners stored users' data including friends' data on their own servers. now, some of facebook's partners are speaking out. apple told "the new york times" it, quote, relied on private access to facebook data for features that enabled users to post

. >> good morning to you as t namese apple, out the blackberry samsung microsoft amazon a handful ofok shared data with according to knewl knew report from "new york times" the partnerships according to the to the report allowed for use of like buttons address books loid for facebook to access the data of users friends without their explicit consent in posting in response to the times article facebook defending itself saying partners signed agreements prevented took information used for any purpose than to recreate facebook life experiences partners could not integrate with devices without user permission. >> congressman devin nunes was warning tech companies reaching into political arena and whether or not companies need to be regulated. >> that brings in aholly another set of cires are these companies facebook, twitter google apple are they monopolies should they be reined in i would hope we don't have to go there. >> opensf door to even more questions about facebook, dagen and user privacy mark zuckerberg was testifying on capitol hill this issue was not publicly known then, so it

>> 60 companies including apple, amazon, samsung, blackberry and we can go down the whole list. microsoft what information went out there. >> this is where there's a difference of opinion heard the new york times says everything from your relationship status to your political leaning and politi and photos. facebook says that is not true. they say if users share that information is by consent. the new york times had false, not by consent. that's one big division for these companies have been very mixed. apple said if it did happen we did stop getting information from facebook last september. amazon and samsung say no comment. it beginning to trickle in. facebook did post a defense in honor of being transparent, they said these partnership agreements, not third-party apps but partnership agreements basically did not abuse any of this data and facebook goes back to its origin story which is hey were creating something new and different, no one else has done this, if you had a blackberry and you wanted to use the facebook app on your blackberry t had a let blackberry have some access. >> i sa

apple. was there anything sinister going on there? >> part of the problem with "the new york times" report on data sharing with device makers, it's amazon, blackberry, microsoftsamsung. the list keeps going. it's scary. not only was facebook sharing data with applications like the cambridge analytica scandal, but now we have come to understand that they're sharing relationship status from the photograph's, private messages with the device makers themselves. the way that they've been able to do this is by cat georgia oh categorizing the service providers. they're by passing the liability that they put in with the ftc that said you can't play fast and loose. you have to be explicit with users gaining consent. >> neil: tim cook said apple didn't do this. if you're right about this, they did get this stuff. >> these device makers got accesso this data. whether they're storing it's on their own servers, they have not responded -- >> neil: why would they want it? they can study the people buying their technology -- >> but tim cook said he didn't do it. did he lie? >> mark zuckerberg said he didn't do it either. >> neil: but zuckerberg saying this is something that