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To: Alex MG who wrote (376478)	7/11/2018 11:02:11 AM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 542957

Facebook let a Russian company with ties to the Kremlin access data from its users By David Gilbert Jul 11, 2018 Facebook gave a Russian company with close ties to the Kremlin extended access to collect data from users of the social network without their permission — and thanks to the Kremlin’s surveillance laws, that means intelligence agencies like the FSB also had access to that data. Buried inside Facebook’s 748-page response to questions from the House Energy and Commerce Committees is a list of apps that were given extra time to harvest data from users and their friends before access was shut off in late 2015. Among those app developers is Mail.ru, a Russia technology giant which developed hundreds of apps for Facebook. Two Mail.ru messaging apps, which enabled users to see their Facebook friend lists and message with people who also had the Mail.ru apps, were given a two week warning, the social network told CNN Tuesday. Mail.ru was founded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, who stepped down as executive chairman of Mail.ru Group in 2012. Milner is also a major investor in Facebook, though the New York Times reported last year that the money for that investment came from Russian state institutions. Today, Mail.Ru Group is controlled by USM Holdings, a company founded by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who was listed by the U.S. Treasury Department last January among Russian billionaires with ties to the Kremlin. Read more