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New revelations about Facebook practices

LONDON The British Parliament has accused the famous social network of disclosing users' personal data to certain firms.

In a lawsuit between Facebook and Six4Three in the United States, the British Parliament obtained and disclosed more than 250 pages "in the public interest" including internal Facebook e-mails sent by its boss and others. In a summary of this package of documents from 2012 to 2015, Damian Collins, head of the Commission on Digital, Culture and Media, raises several "key issues".

He claims that Facebook has entered into agreements with some companies to allow them "full access to the data of users' friends", although the American giant announced in 2015 that it was terminating these accesses. Lyft, Airbnb or Netflix were among the privileged ones on this white list.

Facebook also used the Onavo app (VPN service) to find out how users' apps were being used, "apparently without their knowledge", according to Collins. In addition, the social network sought to obtain Android call history without asking users for their consent.

Facebook "has never sold the data, people" and the documents published on Wednesday "are presented in a very misleading way without adding context," said a spokesman. He recalled the changes made by the social network in 2014 and 2015 to prevent the sharing of data from friends of users with app developers. -AFP/MAN

picture's legend: Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is not done with the scandals.