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Facebook Execs Seen Discussing Data Privacy, Competitors In Leaked Documents

"We don't feel we have had straight answers from Facebook," a member of Parliament says. The company had fought to keep the records private; some are marked "highly confidential."
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Facebook's leaders gave certain big tech companies access to users' data — and the company refused such access to competitors, including the video app Vine, which it targeted right after it was launched by Twitter.

These are two revelations about Facebook's business practices found in more than 200 pages of the social media giant's internal emails and documents from 2012 to 2015 that were released by British lawmakers on Wednesday.

The revelations add to the mounting scrutiny of Facebook and its handling of user privacy. Earlier this year, the social media giant revealed that 87 million of its users had their data improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that had worked with the Trump campaign.

Facebook has long said it.

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