Russia wants answers from Facebook about users’ data security
Following a June report by The New York Times, Russia’s federal censor (Roskomnadzor) has asked Facebook to provide information about its data-sharing partnerships with mobile-device manufacturers, wherever these companies might have obtained users’ private information.
Roskomnadzor’s letter to Facebook is a response to concerns expressed by the “Association of Professional Social Media and Messengers Users,” which reportedly asked Russia’s censor to investigate the possibility that Facebook leaked Russian users’ private data.
On June 2, The New York Times reported that Facebook has formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, “raising new concerns about its privacy protections.”