Facebook is Sharing User Data with Four Chinese Smartphone Manufacturers

Earlier, news sprouted up that Facebook had partnered with various device manufacturer which included the likes of Samsung, Apple, HTC etc. Also, many claimed that this partnership would mean that the device manufacturers would have access to user information, however, Facebook denied the statements saying that the company would not share user info with these smartphone makers. Recently, another report has come up, in which Facebook has accepted that four of the partnerships that it has forged are in China. One of them is with the renowned smartphone manufacturer Huawei.

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Francisco Varela, Vice President of Mobile Partnership at Facebook confirmed the news citing that the social media giant indeed worked with many technology companies one of which was Huawei “Facebook’s integrations with Huawei, Lenovo, OPPO and TCL were controlled from the get-go- and we approved the Facebook experiences these companies built.” He further added, “Given the interest from Congress, we wanted to make clear that all the information from these integrations with Huawei was stored on the device, not on Huawei’s servers.”

The Facebook executive later confirmed that Huawei, Lenovo Group, and smartphone makers Oppo and TCL Corp were among the 60 other companies who were granted access to user information post the partnership between these companies and Facebook. Varela also said that these companies were looking to recreate Facebook like experience on their phones.

Facebook’s partnerships came under the public eye when Members of the Congress raised concerns after a New York Times report was published suggesting that the social media giant had shared users’ friends’ information without taking their explicit consent.