Well, sure. It's your private data so it's behind a login. You can get a free application key which you allow you to programmatically download your information,

Well, sure. It's your private data so it's behind a login. You can get a free application key which you allow you to programmatically download your information, eg graph.facebook.com/me/events /photos, etc. Every bit of data has its own URL, contrary to TBL's claims in the article. Authentication and authorization are orthogonal to the URI scheme.