Claim: Netflix Read Facebook Users’ Messages

parent company of Facebook Meta and publishing giant Netflix once again they found themselves in court. According to the documents submitted to the court, in accordance with the agreement between the two companies, Netflix read the private messages of Facebook users and received them in return. Facebook shared data with.

In the lawsuit filed by two US citizens named Maxiillian Klein and Sarah Grabert, Facebook and Netflix “enjoys a special relationship” and the social media giant’s access to user data “an unspoken reach “recognizes the right” It was claimed. Two important actors of Silicon Valley Also, attention was drawn to “Facebook’s exclusive partnership that has over-developed its ad targeting and rating models.”

It’s called “Private Message” but they made me read it.

At the center of these claims is Mark Zuckerberg It is also known that he has close relations with Reed Hastings It is located. Hastings co-founded Netflix and also has a seat on Facebook’s board of directors. According to the lawyers, after Hastings joined Facebook, Facebook users’ message boxes were opened to Netflix with the Inbox API developed by the two companies.

Offering more personalized content with the information it obtains NetflixIn return, Facebook shared data about its users’ interactions with the platform every 14 days.

In this case Meta And to Netflix It would not be surprising if there was a penalty. Technology giants are now used to these penalties. Platforms that constantly make agreements with legal authorities do not hesitate to pay large sums of money. For example Meta, paid a fine of 265 million euros to Ireland in 2022 for leaking data. That same year, they also agreed to pay a $725 million fine for data collected in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.