{"id":166319,"date":"2018-06-06T03:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T07:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=166319"},"modified":"2018-06-06T03:01:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T07:01:28","slug":"report-facebook-shared-user-data-with-flagged-chinese-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/06\/report-facebook-shared-user-data-with-flagged-chinese-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Facebook shared user data with flagged Chinese firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31515\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31515\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31515\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086.jpg\" alt=\"The report says Facebook said Tuesday the handset makers  \u2014  Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL  \u2014  were among 60 it had shared data with as early as 2007. Facebook told the newspaper it planned to wind down the Huawei deal this week.(ShutterStock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_171252086-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The report says Facebook said Tuesday the handset makers \u2014 Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL \u2014 were among 60 it had shared data with as early as 2007. Facebook told the newspaper it planned to wind down the Huawei deal this week.(ShutterStock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MENLO PARK, Calif. \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0The New York Times says Facebook has acknowledged it shared user data with several Chinese handset manufacturers, including Huawei, a company flagged by U.S. intelligence officials as a national security threat.<\/p>\n<p>The report says Facebook said Tuesday the handset makers \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0were among 60 it had shared data with as early as 2007. Facebook told the newspaper it planned to wind down the Huawei deal this week.<\/p>\n<p>The data included work history, relationship status and likes on device users and their friends.<\/p>\n<p>The report didn&#8217;t say the data was misused. Facebook did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, says he wants to know how Facebook ensured that data was not transferred to Chinese servers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MENLO PARK, Calif. \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0The New York Times says Facebook has acknowledged it shared user data with several Chinese handset &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":31515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[444,51699],"class_list":["post-166319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-user-data","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}