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Facebook let Tinder get special access to user data: Report
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IANS | 08 Nov, 2019
Despite dismissing Tinder cofounder Sean Rad as irrelevant, Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg allowed the dating app special access to user data, as
revealed by leaked exchanges between the two executives.
Access
to Facebook data helped Tinder thrive, but there came a point when it
inched closer to losing that access, Forbes reported on Thursday.
Released
this week, the leaked correspondence is part of a long-running law suit
in California state court, between former Facebook app developer
Six4three and Facebook.
The documents running into nearly 7,000
pages were leaked to Duncan Campbell in February 2019 but published on
Wednesday. According to Campbell's website, he is an investigative
journalist and a forensic expert based in Ireland.
In 2014,
Facebook, which is facing several antitrust investigations, announced a
new set of rules to prevent third-party app developers from getting
access to data on users' friends. The social networking giant set May
2015 as the deadline for complying to the new rules. But some firms
continued to have access to the crucial data, including Tinder.
According
to the report in Forbes, Facebook wanted the dating app to share
trademark rights on "MOMENTS.", a photo app that Facebook wanted to
launch, an email exchange in March 2015 showed.
Despite giving
Tinder preferential treatment, Zuckerberg rejected the suggestion he
meet with Rad, explaining, "I don't think he's that relevant. He
probably just wants to make sure we won't turn off their API."
Facebook
Dating was eventually launched in September with features similar to
those in popular dating apps like Hinge, Bumble and Tinder.
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