{"id":10173,"date":"2011-07-06T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2011-07-06T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:55:17","slug":"scouring-your-own-facebook-profile-for-information-your-friends-shared-with-you-is-in-violation-of-facebooks-terms-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/scouring-your-own-facebook-profile-for-information-your-friends-shared-with-you-is-in-violation-of-facebooks-terms-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"“Scouring your own Facebook profile for information your friends shared with you is in violation of Facebook’s terms of service”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook really, really<\/em> doesn’t want you leaving for Google+ — in fact, they don’t even want you looking too closely at your friends’ personal data<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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With the introduction of Google+ last week, the search\/ad giant is finally in direct competition with Facebook. Or it will be, once Google gets over the opening week willies and reopens the service to allow the teeming hordes inside.<\/p>\n

The biggest barrier to Google+’s success? All the time and effort we’ve already put into building our Facebook posses. Personally I am too old and cranky to start over from scratch. I just want to be able to click a button and automatically add everyone from Facebook to Google+.<\/p>\n

That is, of course, exactly what Facebook does not<\/em> want you to do, as an open source developer named Mohamed Mansour just discovered.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

As Mansour noted (on his Google+ page, naturally):<\/p>\n

     “This is what happens when your extension becomes famous :sigh: Facebook just removed the emails from their mobile site. They implemented a throttling mechanism that if you visit your ~5 friends in a short period of time, it will remove the email field.<\/p>\n

     “No worries, a new version is on the making … I am bloody annoyed now, because this proves Facebook owns every users data on Facebook. You don’t own anything! If I were you, I would riot this to the media outlets again.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It turns out that scouring your own Facebook profile for information your friends shared with you is in violation of Facebook’s terms of service. Nice, eh?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook really, really doesn’t want you leaving for Google+ — in fact, they don’t even want you looking too closely at your friends’ personal data: With the introduction of Google+ last week, the search\/ad giant is finally in direct competition with Facebook. Or it will be, once Google gets over the opening week willies and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[391,328,154,593,92],"class_list":["post-10173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-privacy","tag-socialmedia","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2E5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}