RBC denies NYT report on Facebook giving access to users' Facebook messages

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is denying a New York Fourth dimensions report that says the bank, also equally other companies, were able to read, write and delete users' messages on Facebook Messenger.

The December 20th, 2018 New York Times' commodity indicated that it looked at hundreds of pages of internal documents and conducted dozens of interviews with Facebook employees.

The report states that Facebook gave access to users' data to these companies and that the social media behemothic as well gave access to names of users' friend's lists without permission. In some cases, information technology granted access to individual messages and forms containing personal information.

More than 150 companies (specifically in the tech field), including RBC, were given preferential access to this information without users' noesis or permission, according to the written report.

RBC has said information technology never had access to users' individual letters and did not accept the power to delete messages.

"RBC's use of the Facebook platform was express to the development of a service that enabled clients to facilitate payment transactions to their Facebook friends," the bank told CBC on December 19th, 2018. RBC was referring to a plan information technology launched in 2013, which allow its clients send money through Facebook Messenger.

"As part of our security and fraud protocols, we needed to uniquely identify the recipient of funds and payments to deeply process the transaction and deliver the notification," RBC spokesman AJ Goodman said to the CBC.

"Nosotros did not have the ability to see users' messages. We decommissioned the service in 2015 and our express access, which was used strictly to enable our clients' payments, ended at that time."

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Source: CBC

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