https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzknpe/report-facebook-gave-chinese-device-manufacturers-special-access-to-user-data > It’s becoming increasingly clear that Facebook’s casual treatment of private consumer data exposed during the Cambridge Analytica scandal was the norm, not the exception. Despite routine shock and indignation by Facebook executives at Cambridge Analytica’s misleading use of app-gleaned user data, it’s abundantly clear that the company’s protection of consumer data haven’t been up to snuff for the better part of the last decade, and that lax treatment of such data is most decidedly a Facebook feature, not a bug. > The latest case in point: earlier this week, the New York Times revealed that Facebook has been routinely striking deep data sharing partnerships with numerous hardware vendors since at least 2010. The report noted that Facebook had struck deals providing “vast amounts” of user data with at least 60 different hardware vendors including Apple and Samsung.