I pretty much agree with your points, but I don't see the relationship to this topic. It seems possible that you have misunderstood what these news stories are

I pretty much agree with your points, but I don't see the relationship to this topic. It seems possible that you have misunderstood what these news stories are about (or equally possible that I have). This story is about Facebook giving "privileged API access" to certain companies. That means that when users give their login credentials to those companies, they can access certain data about the users in certain ways. However, as I said above, if the user gives those companies login credentials, the user is already putting a frighteningly large amount of trust in that third party. There needs to be much more awareness of this.