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# Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
- URL: https://werd.io/facebook-let-netflix-see-user-dms-quit-streaming-to-keep/
- Published: 2024-03-29T00:33:19.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-29T00:33:19.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

"By 2013, Netflix had begun entering into a series of “Facebook Extended API” agreements, including a so-called “Inbox API” agreement that allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users' private message inboxes, in exchange for which Netflix would “provide to FB a written report every two weeks that shows daily counts of recommendation sends and recipient clicks.”"

This seems like it should be wildly illegal - collusion on user data to the point where a third party had access to users' private messages. I have to assume that this data was then used as part of Netflix's then-famous recommendation algorithm. [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/)\]