It seems like NYT was right on this one as FB themselves acknowledged that they gave 3rd party access to their users’ private messages (and apparently they still don’t see this as a big no-no ?!?). There are also quite privacy-aware users on this very website who say that they don’t remember being explicitly asked by FB about granting Spotify access to their private messages, and there’s also a link to an old screenshot from around 2013 showing that the FB confirmation screen was indeed very vague, there was no explicit mention of the user giving a 3rd party access to his/her private messages, just to his/her “data”, a very general term which is not generally correlated to private messages.
As such I’d say that articles like the one recently published by the NYT are spot on, and I also hope that FB will pay the price for what it has done (I’m personally in favor of a forced break-up).
As such I’d say that articles like the one recently published by the NYT are spot on, and I also hope that FB will pay the price for what it has done (I’m personally in favor of a forced break-up).