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Facebook Put User Data Within Kremlin’s Grasp Last Year

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Yandex, the country’s largest tech company, got special access to info from Mark Zuckerberg’s company.

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Large tech companies retained access to Facebook users’ data long after everyone else was locked out, according to a New York Times story published Tuesday, including a Moscow search engine that previously handed over user data to Russia’s secret police.

Under a special arrangement with Facebook, so-called “integration partners” like Netflix,...

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