Airtel and Reliance Jio's music app partner Saavn and 58 ather are among companies that could have had access to data of social media major Facebook, according to the submissions made by the US-based firm to the Congress.
Since inception, Facebook has allowed third-party apps like Saavn to access - said to be with consent - wide-ranging data about friends of users who signed up for the service. This data access was, however, blocked from 2015. Yet, Saavn and the other firms were given extra time to become compliant with the social networking giant’s restrictive API policy and new rules around data privacy and prevent abuse. Why these particular companies were singled out and given one-time exemption is not known.