Facebook ends 2018 with yet another revelation about the sharing of user data, as reported by The New York Times.????It was revealed the social media platform shared user data with major businesses such as Netflix, Microsoft, Yahoo and Spotify.

Facebook did not sell the information on its users but provided it through a data-sharing partnership with more than 150 companies.????The New York Times article also revealed that some companies like Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada had access to users’ private messages, even the ability to read, write or delete them.

Spotify and Netflix told the Times they were unaware they had this level of access.

????In a statement to Business Insider, Facebook’s director of privacy and public policy Steve Satterfield said “Facebook’s partners don’t get to ignore people’s privacy settings, and it’s wrong to suggest that they do.”????In the past year, the social media site has seen it’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify before Congress on how Facebook may have impacted the 2016 presidential election, the revelation of data accessing by Cambridge Analytica and a bug exposing user’s photos to 3rd party apps.????Satterfield continued “We know we’ve got work to do to regain people’s trust.

Protecting people’s information requires stronger teams, better technology and clearer policies, and that’s where we’ve been focused for most of 2018.”