A U.K. Parliamentary Committee last week released 250 pages of e-mails that show that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives at the social media giant gave certain app developers special access to user data.

Members of Parliament also said the files showed that Facebook had deliberately made it “as hard as possible” for users of its Android app to be aware of privacy changes.

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