> But Facebook officials said this week that they did not consider hardware partners to be outside companies, under the terms of Facebook’s privacy policies an

> But Facebook officials said this week that they did not consider hardware partners to be outside companies, under the terms of Facebook’s privacy policies and a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission. ....except for when hardware partners are discovered to have had a breach, in which case Facebook officials said that those companies would be held liable.