From CNET: Facebook on Wednesday said it was necessary to grant Spotify and Netflix special access to users' private messages to enable integration of messaging features.
The social media giant said in a blog post that experimental features no longer offered required granting read/write access to the companies. The blog post comes a day after The New York Times reported that Facebook gave the companies greater access to users' personal data than the social-networking company previously disclosed.
"We've been accused of disclosing people's private messages to partners without their knowledge," Facebook VP of Product Partnerships Ime Archibong wrote in a blog post. "That's not true."
The experiments allowed Facebook users to share messages with friends about what they were listening to on Spotify or watching on Netflix, Archibong said. He said the experiences were only available when users logged into the services through Facebook and were shut down nearly three years ago.
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