A new report in The New York Times contains a startling fact: Working with a 2013 BlackBerry device, a reporter was recently able to use special access Facebook had granted the phone manufacturer to glean some identifying information about 294,258 people.

Facebook said this special access to data existed only for old devices that did not have a native Facebook application. These people were friends of the reporter’s friends—and their information was available to the BlackBerry application, regardless of their Facebook privacy settings. Facebook admitted that it had private data-sharing arrangements with approximately 60 phone manufacturers including players like Apple and Samsung.

The story centers on what reporters could accomplish with that old BlackBerry phone, though it gestures at the other phone makers. This might be confusing. So, here’s what we know so far: