> paid Microsoft with users' data That sure sounds like a misrepresentation of what happened here. From the article: "These partners signed agreements that pre

> paid Microsoft with users' data That sure sounds like a misrepresentation of what happened here. From the article: "These partners signed agreements that prevented people’s Facebook information from being used for any other purpose than to recreate Facebook-like experiences." I don't think I would represent facebook as "paying" google with user's data just because Chrome has access to user data when a user visits the facebook website.