Article 3S0R2 Facebook only pretended to shut down access to friends' data in 2015, quietly continued access for its favored partners

Facebook only pretended to shut down access to friends' data in 2015, quietly continued access for its favored partners

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Cory Doctorow
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Facebook opened up access to friends' data through its API in a bid to attract developers to its platform, but in 2015, it incurred those developers' wrath when it pulled the rug out from under them, killing the API calls that allowed apps to mine their users' friends' data. (more")

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