Netflix Denies It Read Users Messages After Revelations That Facebook Allowed It

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After it was revealed that Facebook potentially gave companies much more access to users data than first thought, Netflix has responded. They now insist that they never accessed users Facebook messages.

According to a recent report by the New York Times, it is believed that Facebook gives users’ details to companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and Spotify. Included in this data sharing is access to Facebook users private messages. And, as previously reported by the Inquisitr, these companies not only had access to users’ messages, but they also had the ability to write new messages and delete old ones.

In addition, it is believed that “Microsoft Bing could see all Facebook users’ friends without their consent and Amazon could gain access to users’ names and contact information through their friends,” according to IGN.

Netflix has now come forward, via their official Twitter account, to confirm that

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