https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/facebook-app-developers-friend-data > Facebook continued to provide “whitelisted” developers with access to the data of their users’ friends after overhauling its privacy policy in 2014/15, according to an extraordinary cache of documents published by parliament. > The documents, which were seized by MPs from an app developer who is currently suing the company, also suggest that the platform changes were at least partly driven by financial motives, according to Damian Collins, the chair of the fake news inquiry.