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Facebook battles Google over access to user data

Facebook has suspended the use of a Google service which allowed people to export their Facebook friends list to other websites, claiming that the Google service violates users' privacy. Google recently released Friend Connect, a system which allows a user of social networking sites to export details from within those services …

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Mike Crawshaw
Stop

"which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect"

He said THAT with a straight face????

Simon Lacey
Happy

Facebook and user privacy

I'll write the comment when I've picked myself back up off the floor :)

Anonymous Coward
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Facebook once again...

Problem is that Facebook is way overvalued. Most of investors noticed it already. There's no way it'll grow as fast as it did in the last 2 years, thus, by rules of Wall Street, it's value will decrease. So Zuckerberg is trying to at least stop some of suck^H^H^H customers from leaving to competitors. And competitors are everywhere, especially accepting that by their own stupidity Facebook is english only. Sorry what???

Kane
Stop

"which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect"

AhahahaHAHAHAHahaAHAHAHAHAHHHAAAHAH AHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH!!!!!

AHAHahaHAHAHAaAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

*cough-splutter-deep breath*

AHAHhahaHAAHahAHAhAaaahahaAHaHAHa!!

ahaha!

hah!

pppleeassse make it stop!!!!

hahhaha!!

*sigh*

Apologies, I had to express the absolute shock at what I had just read....

Steven
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Just wet myself!

"Claiming that the Google service violates users' privacy". Of course Facebook is a pinnacle of upstanding when it comes to users privacy...

Anonymous Coward
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LOL

FAiLBook couldnt pay me to join their lovely antiprivacy database

imagine a world where there are sites arguing over YOUR DATA

oh wait thats what this is, jesus if its not the gov & phorm its failbook and google

where will it end...

Anonymous Coward
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applications that redistribute data in a way users might not expect or understand

You mean like Facebook Beacon?

D'OH!

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Mr. Kettel, please meet Mr. Pot

And to think people watch TV when they can get entertainment like this?

Steve

Privacy expectations

I'd have thought that this was *exactly* the kind of privacy protections that Facebook users have come to expect. At least, those who have been paying attention.

Graham Marsden
Coat

But...

... Surely this will allow them to find out who are the over-36-year-olds who are all potential kiddie fiddlers!

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