Russian tech giant Yandex said on Friday, commenting on media reports about Facebook allegedly giving tech companies access to users' personal data without their knowledge for years, that it had not received any information from the social network since 2015.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st December, 2018) Russian tech giant Yandex said on Friday, commenting on media reports about Facebook allegedly giving tech companies access to users' personal data without their knowledge for years, that it had not received any information from the social network since 2015.
In 2014, Yandex and Facebook entered into an agreement under which the Russian technological company was allowed to index public data from Facebook pages and public posts to improve search results for its users in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and other CIS countries.
"Yandex and other search engines stopped receiving data from Facebook in 2015 after Facebook disabled the relevant API [application programming interface] enabling the data feed. Yandex complied with all terms of the agreement for receiving data, and we were unaware of any continued or additional access being shared with Yandex through that API," Yandex said in a press release.
On Tuesday, The New York Times newspaper reported that Facebook shared users' data with about 150 world's major tech companies under "special arrangements." Yandex was listed among those companies along with Amazon, microsoft and Spotify.
