In a jaw-dropping article confirming your worst fears about Big Tech, the New York Times reports that Facebook effectively exempted large tech conglomerates from Netflix to Spotify from their normal privacy policies to give them unfettered access to individual data. Through the arrangement, Amazon acquired access to users’ contact information, Bing obtained users’ Facebook friends list, and so on.

The Times report comes after more than a year of intense, bipartisan criticism of the company’s handling of user privacy and content aggregation.

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