TechCrunch reported this week that Meta “denies giving Netflix access to users' private messages.”
The claims refer to court filings that surfaced as part of the discovery process in a class action lawsuit over data privacy practices between consumer groups and Facebook's parent company, Meta. The document claims that Netflix and Facebook have a “special relationship” and that Facebook has even reduced spending on original programming for its Facebook Watch video service to avoid competing with Netflix, a major Facebook advertiser. . It also says that Netflix accessed Meta's “Inbox API” to provide the streamer with “programmatic access to users' private message inboxes on Facebook.”
Andy Stone, Director of Communications at Meta, said: Reposted original X post On Tuesday, Netflix issued a statement disputing that it had been given access to users' private messages. “A shocking falsehood,” Stone wrote to X. “Meta did not share people's private messages with Netflix. This agreement allowed people to message their friends on Facebook about what they were watching on Netflix directly from the Netflix app. Agreements are common in the 'industry…'
Other than Stone's X post, Meta has not made any further comments. However, the New York Times reported in 2018 that Netflix and Spotify can read users' private messages, according to documents obtained. Meta denied those claims at the time in a blog post titled “The Facts About Facebook's Messaging Partnership,” in which Netflix and Spotify announced that consumers can directly tell their friends about what they're listening to on Spotify and watching on Netflix. He explained that he was accessing an API that allows him to send messages. From those companies' respective apps. For this reason, companies require “write access” to compose messages to friends, “read access” so users can read messages from their friends, and if they delete messages from third-party apps. Required “delete access”. The message will also be deleted from Facebook.
“No third party could read your private messages or write messages to your friends without your permission. Many news articles said that we were sending private messages to our partners. That is not true,” the blog post states. In any case, Messenger did not implement default end-to-end encryption until December 2023, but if this had been practiced, there is no doubt that these kinds of claims would not have started. did.
