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WASHINGTON, February 6 (Reuters) – USA Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on Monday Facebook)’s parent company Meta Platforms ( META.O ) wrote about documents showing it knows developers in China. and Russia had access to user data that could be used for espionage.

“It appears from these documents that Facebook at least 2018including the People’s Republic of China since September Facebookknows that hundreds of thousands of developers in countries it describes as “high-risk” have access to significant amounts of sensitive user data. ,” Warner, a Democrat, and Rubio, a Republican, wrote in a letter to company founder Mark Zuckerberg.

An internal Meta document shows that while Facebook has never been able to operate in China, nearly 90,000 developers in China have been given access to information about users, including profile information, photos and private messages, the letter said.

More than 42,000 in Russia, Iran and thousands of developers in North Korea also have access to the information, they wrote.

Unsealed documents in the Northern District of California 2018opened in court emerged as part of the process.

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“We have serious concerns about the extent to which this access could enable foreign intelligence activities, from foreign influence to targeting and counterintelligence,” the two senators wrote.

Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Reporting by Diane Bartz Editing by Bill Berkrot

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2023-02-07 06:06:01
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