Court documents and company officials revealed Facebook had customized data-sharing agreements with several companies even after it swore off the practice in 2015, The Wall Street Journal reports. Facebook allowed those companies, including the Royal Bank of Canada and Nissan Motor, to have access to data about users’ friends. The agreements were known within Facebook as “whitelists” and differed from the data-sharing agreements the social media company had with at least 60 device manufacturers. Facebook Vice President of Product Partnerships Ime Archibong said in a statement the agreements were extensions to give companies more time to switch to a more restricted version of its Platform API and that the extensions ended years earlier. (Registration may be required to access this story.) 
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