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Re:Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users ... by zaroth on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:58AM (#17229169)
That’s not what the term means. User agents which render Facebook UI components are not “third parties” to my Facebook data anymore than my monitor manufacturer is a third party to my Facebook data while I am viewing the pixels in the screen.
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Re:Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users ... by hvis on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:00AM (#17237618)
> my monitor manufacturer is a third party to my Facebook data

It actually is. Your monitor, on the other hand, can be considered a part of yourself for the purposes of viewing the data.

If it somehow sends sensitive information back to its manufacturer, thought, that would be a new, different can of worms.

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