Facebook also let dating apps have further access to Graph API back in 2015

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Two hundred fifty pages of previously secret internal documents from Facebook show that the company allowed even more companies to be "whitelisted"-granting them extended access to the company's permissive v1.0 Graph API back in 2015-than has previously been known.

In addition, the Wednesday release by a British lawmaker also confirms what Ars previously discovered via a failure to adequately redact public court filings from last year: Facebook once considered charging for access to user data.

The documents, known as the "Six4Three files," were published by Damian Collins, a member of the UK Parliament. Collins is the chair of the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) Committee in Parliament, which has been overseeing inquiries into Facebook's practices. On November 16, the DCMS again asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before the committee via video; Zuckerberg has given no indication that he will do so.

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