Saavn, Airtel among 61 companies that had access to user data: Facebook

Since its inception, the social networking service has allowed third-party apps like Saavn to access, supposedly with consent, wide-ranging data about the friends of users who had signed up

Music streaming app Saavn and telecom firm Airtel are among the dozens of companies that received either a special, one-time exemption from Facebook after it cut off access to user data in 2015 or signed data sharing agreements with the social networking giant as part of an “integration partnership”.

This information comes from new written submissions made by the Silicon Valley-based technology firm to the US Congress.

These hitherto unreported deals with app developers and software makers represent what analysts and media reports are calling the “most granular explanation of exemptions” that Facebook gave companies