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From the Daily Beast article: First, because it believes Google is doing some things in social networking that raise privacy concerns; second, and perhaps more
by brown9-2 16y ago
From the Daily Beast article:
First, because it believes Google is doing some things in social networking that raise privacy concerns; second, and perhaps more important, because Facebook resents Google’s attempts to use Facebook data in its own social-networking service.
So, just to get this straight: Facebook resents that Google use's "Facebook data" in Social Circles, when I as the user have to explicitly allow Google to import my Facebook connections? Shouldn't the user get a say in how their data is used and who uses it?
- count 16y agoYou do get a say - you got a say that Facebook could have your data. At least in the US, that makes it their data - we have no eTRUST or other Privacy law/data ownership laws in place to say otherwise.
- brown9-2 16y agoThis doesn't seem like it would be a very popular point of view with the people giving data to Facebook (or whom want to share it with Google or other companies).
- elehack 16y agoSadly, most of those people don't realize this is what is happening, or what the implications of such control and ownership are.
- hessenwolf 16y agoDoesn't Facebook have an import gmail contacts feature?
- Rariel 16y agoNot anymore, they took that off a while ago. Funny thing is for a while the gmail logo still appeared even though when you clicked it to import via gmail it didn't have the option.
- paxswill 16y agoNot anymore. It was removed after Facebook wouldn't share data back to Google.
- yuhong 16y agoYea, if you look up "google facebook contacts" on say TechCrunch you will see several articles on the entire story.
- 3am 16y agohttp://techcrunch.com/2010/02/19/octazen-what-the-heck-did-facebook-just-buy-exactly-and-why/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/19/octazen-what-the-heck-did-f...
- kmavm 16y agoActually, you don't explicitly allow Google to import the data. Google does the following: a) scrape Facebook.com; b) notice that someone named "Roderick Evans" on Facebook is friends with someone named "Danielle Benson" on Facebook; c) notice that someone named Roderick Evans' GMail account has someone named Danielle Benson in his contacts; d) they're done. Your permission is not part of the process. Your Facebook identity is now associated with your Google profile, and your Google profile gets associated connecting edges, without your permission or notice. If by some miracle you swing by your Google profile, and you notice that your Quora/Twitter/MySpace/Facebook accounts have all suddenly been connected, you can sever them, but I received no notice of the connection beforehand. At least, that was how it worked for me before I deleted my Google profile. It's described in more flowery terms here: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=1142745 http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer...
- brown9-2 16y agoDoesn't the Facebook user need to allow their connections to be publicly accessed via the Graph API in order for it to be scrape-able in the first place? The main point here is that Google isn't doing anything with the "Facebook data" that the original user of that data (who actually owns it, let's be fair about that) hasn't approved of in one way or another.
- rryan 16y agoNot sure about the Graph API, but your name, your profile picture, and your contact list are all fully public information and you can't control their visibility.
- brown9-2 16y agoAre you sure about that? How does one access this info? If I go to http://graph.facebook.com/<myusername> http://graph.facebook.com/<myusername>, the only data that is visible is: { "id": "...", "name": "...", "first_name": "...", "last_name": "...", "username": "...", "gender": "male", "locale": "en_US" }