The APIs provided access to data that had been shared with the person who was logged into the device, but not with random Facebook apps like Farmville. The New

The APIs provided access to data that had been shared with the person who was logged into the device, but not with random Facebook apps like Farmville. The New York Times' argument is essentially that the flag which stopped Cambridge Analytica and Zynga getting access to your data should also have stopped your actual friends from viewing it except through installing Facebook's official app. It's hard to see any way in which making users choose between sharing their info with every dodgy quiz their friends use and forcing their friends to install the Facebook app and let it get its tendrils into their devices in order to interact with them would've been good for privacy, but this is exactly what the NYT is insisting Facebook should've done.