Facebook Inc said it did not give some companies access to people’s data without their permission after the New York Times reported on Tuesday that the social network allowed some large technology companies greater access to user data.

Axar.az reports citing Reuters.

Facebook allowed Microsoft's Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users' friends without their consent, citing documents from 2017.

"None of these partnerships or features gave companies access to information without people's permission, nor did they violate our 2012 settlement with the FTC," Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Facebook's director of developer platforms and programs, said in a blog post