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Facebook shares fell 1.3 percent to $191.50 before the bell on
Monday, in what was otherwise an upbeat start for Wall Street.
The software referred to by the newspaper was launched 10 years
ago and was used by about 60 companies, including Amazon <AMZN.O>,
Apple <AAPL.O>, Blackberry <BB.TO>, HTC <2498.TW>, Microsoft <MSFT.O>
and Samsung <005930.KS>, Facebook's vice president of product
partnerships Ime Archibong wrote in a blog post.
The Times said that Facebook allowed companies access to the
data of users' friends without their explicit consent, even
after declaring that it would no longer share such information
with outsiders.
Some device makers could retrieve personal information even from
users' friends who believed they had barred any sharing, the
newspaper said.
"Contrary to claims by the New York Times, friends' information,
like photos, was only accessible on devices when people made a
decision to share their information with those friends," said
Ime Archibong, Facebook's vice president of product
partnerships.
Facebook has been under scrutiny from regulators and
shareholders after it failed to protect the data of some 87
million users that was shared with now-defunct political data
firm Cambridge Analytica.
The data scandal was first reported in March by the New York
Times and London's Observer.
Archibong also said that these cases were "very different" from
the use of data by third party developers in the Cambridge row.
(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Bengaluru; editing by
Patrick Graham)
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