>"It's the equivalent of complaining that hotmail sold your private email data to Thunderbird when you used Thunderbird as your desktop email client." No that'

>"It's the equivalent of complaining that hotmail sold your private email data to Thunderbird when you used Thunderbird as your desktop email client." No that's not at all equivalent. If Hotmail were my only email provider, me and hotmail are the only ones who have access to my inbox regardless of what email client or clients I choose to use. That's not "connecting accounts." Thunderbird is not a company. What an absurd statement to make. >"If should be fairly clear to anyone that if you connect accounts you are exposing data between the accounts." Except that we don't actually know if FB only gave access to people who had accounts with both FB and the specific third party. Nor do we know who the third parties exposed that data to. FB has very problematic relationship with truth and transparency in general. Nothing should be "fairly clear to anyone" about FB. >"The debate about the granularity of permissions is neither here nor there ..." Saying something is "neither here nor there" is a meaningless platitude.