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I'm glad facebook doesn't give out the email addresses of friends to third parties without permission, and I am for their distinction between owning the friend
by dmvaldman 16y ago
I'm glad facebook doesn't give out the email addresses of friends to third parties without permission, and I am for their distinction between owning the friend list, but not their friends' data.
The public seems to not have a consistent sense of privacy. They slam Facebook for being too open by not having a privacy setting enforced as the default, and then slam Facebook again when Facebook isn't advertising emails.
Personally not a fan of all this hot air.
- patrickaljord 16y ago> I'm glad facebook doesn't give out the email addresses of friends to third parties without permission The problem is that they actually do with yahoo mail and hotmail http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1889234 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1889234
- spdy 16y agoMh why is it ok for yahoo and microsoft to access my friends email over an api but not for myself or a third party vendor (like google). http://searchengineland.com/facebook-you-have-no-right-to-export-email-addresses-55247 http://searchengineland.com/facebook-you-have-no-right-to-ex... If i want to export all of my data out of facebook why cant i get these kind of informations?
- _sh 16y agoWhen I sign up to Facebook and use their contact list importer, they are using the private email addresses of my friends to link me into their network. When I export my social graph, Facebook will not return to me the email addresses I gave it when I signed up. Either way, all this bluster is a red herring. The article has it right: Facebook is outright lying when they claim this is about protecting its users--people who have explicitly agreed to include themselves in my social graph in the first place. It's about owning the social graph.