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You can download an archive of your Facebook data already. What "real APIs" would you like the government to "compel" this private corporation to add?
by austinheap 10y ago
You can download an archive of your Facebook data already. What "real APIs" would you like the government to "compel" this private corporation to add?
- sp332 10y agoYou can't download most of the data facebook collects about you. This guy tried, and it was a legal battle. http://www.wired.co.uk/article/privacy-versus-facebook http://www.wired.co.uk/article/privacy-versus-facebook "The concept of access [to your data] was just alien to them. In the US consent is just a privacy policy and a tick-box approach." "They break democratically decided laws in the EU and get away with it. Instead of putting money into compliance, they expect NGOs and authorities to do that work for them."
- jimmytidey 10y agoBy real APIs I mean ones with sufficient durability and access to data to allow third parties to provide innovative products based on them. The bundle download that Facebook offers (which I have used) doesn't meet those criteria, we can see this because no one has built a business off it. At the moment Tinder is the only company I'm aware of that really does this, and it's not exactly a corner stone of democracy. I've no idea why you've written the word compel in speech marks? If it is because you think it is unacceptable to ever compel a private corporation to anything, I'd point out that Facebook and all other corporations are already bound by all kinds of laws, many of which are very widely accepted. Especially relevant here are the laws (and social norms) TV and print organisations adhere to.