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 Facebook said on Monday not to be "aware" of an eventual fraudulent access to the personal data of its users and their "friends" by mobile phone manufacturers several years ago.
 
The social network also said it was "in disagreement" with the findings of the New York Times, which said in a report that manufacturers could have access to users' personal data without their consent by installing a Facebook interface on your smartphone. 

These transfers could have taken place after the agreement reached in 2011 between Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to better protect the data of its users, which could only be transferred with their explicit consent.

The social network has been involved in recent months in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a British company accused of having collected and used without their consent the personal data of 87 million users for political purposes, including to win the Brexit in Great Britain and Donald Trump in the presidential elections of the United States.

In a statement, Facebook recalled that before the creation of a standardized application, some sixty phone manufacturers such as Amazon, Apple, Blackberry, HTC, Microsoft and Samsung had collaborated with Facebook to adapt a platform interface on their devices.

"We've been monitoring them from the beginning," said Ime Archibong, vice president of product associations at Facebook, noting that "partners could not integrate user data without their permission."

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"Information about friends, as well as photos, was only available on devices if people made the decision to share this information with their friends," he added.

"We are not aware of abuses by these companies," Archibong said.

But according to the New York Times, these user permits have not always been explicit, as stated in the 2011 FTC decree.

In addition, an investigation conducted by the newspaper showed that some manufacturers "could retrieve personal information, even from friends of users who thought they had blocked the sharing tool."

Facebook also remembered in its statement that in April it announced the end of its collaborations for the interfaces, due to the popularity of the "app stores", the online stores of applications.