“and then allowed those platforms to have access not only to your data, but your friends exhaustive data.”
Only for purposes of allowing the user to interact with Facebook. The platforms themselves couldn’t use the data for anything other than supporting user actions.
This is perfectly reasonable and is why APIs exist.
The issue, which has not been repeated, would be if those platforms retained data without user consent and used the data for other purposes. That would violate the contract they signed with Facebook and be bad for use privacy.
To a non technology person, these two very different things sound similar (Facebook let Microsoft access use data). But this is meaningless without more context.
Only for purposes of allowing the user to interact with Facebook. The platforms themselves couldn’t use the data for anything other than supporting user actions.
This is perfectly reasonable and is why APIs exist.
The issue, which has not been repeated, would be if those platforms retained data without user consent and used the data for other purposes. That would violate the contract they signed with Facebook and be bad for use privacy.
To a non technology person, these two very different things sound similar (Facebook let Microsoft access use data). But this is meaningless without more context.