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Facebook used the data of the users of its platform as a currency of exchange with its partners, a movement that the company tried to show as part of its privacy protection actions.

The American media NBC News has reported Facebook practices with the data of the users of the social network, mainly between 2011 and 2015 , from documents obtained from internal communications of the technology company.

These documents - about 7,000 pages , of which 4,000 are internal communications and about 1,200 are considered "highly confidential" - collect how the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and their managers provided information about users, about friends, relationships or photographs , to the friendly partners.

NBC News quotes between the partners that benefited Amazon and MessageWe . The goal was to help friendly partners and fight rival companies.

Thus, the social network would have given access to special information to the company of Jeff Bezos, as he invested in advertising. On the other hand, it removed access to this data to the messaging application when it became too popular and became its competition. From Facebook, they planned to show these actions within a framework of user privacy protection.

The documents obtained appear to be the same as those accessed by the British Parliament in 2018 in the course of an investigation on Facebook, within the framework of the complaint lodged by the 'startup' Six4Three in 2015, after Facebook's intention to limit the access to certain types of user data.

After this decision, Six4Three and other applications that depended on access to user information to offer their services, ended up being expelled from the market.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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