> "Facebook acknowledged that some partners did store users’ data — including friends’ data — on their own servers." This statement from the article is meaning

> "Facebook acknowledged that some partners did store users’ data — including friends’ data — on their own servers." This statement from the article is meaningless, as many legit things might mean "third party storing data" as: 1.) Storing and editing contact imports, if user wants. This is technically friends data, but it's my contact list. 2.) Proxy-ing and caching: we are talking about shitty phones mostly before android and ios were mainstream, so "store on their servers" could be as simple as an artefact of implementation of non-html facebook client app on that shitty phone. Example of such artefacts: custom notifications channels, caching, downscaling of images. I think that blackberry did proxy all of their communications through their servers (not 100% sure), so if Facebook was available, they probably also had to store something on their servers. The journalist didn't even attempted to distinguish between "my device is calling this api" and "company is doing requests" and resort to conflating those two and ambiguous "some partners did store users". This is example of journalist trying to create a story instead of getting to truth. If they would dig deeper, and try to figure out which companies stored data, what type of data (was it contact import, caching, or did they download full graph?), and what was purpose, it would be valuable article.