Google vs. Facebook
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[2010] Google To Facebook: You Can't Import Our User Data Any Longer Without Reciprocity
The war between Google and Facebook is heating up: Google just made one small tweak to its Terms of Service that will have a big impact on the world’s biggest social network. From now on, any service that accesses Google’s Contacts API — which makes it easy to import your list of friends’ and coworkers’ email addresses into another service — will need to offer reciprocity.
The Facebook-Google spat over who controls your data. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
I don't think Google did everything right here, but it does clearly have the moral high ground. The search company has long been a champion of users' rights to transfer their data elsewhere. It even has an internal group, the Data Liberation Front , whose mission is to help all of Google's product teams build easy-to-use export features.
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Google empêchera Facebook d'accéder à sa base de membres - PC INpact
Zuckerberg admits fallibility over Gmail block • The Register
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg isn't sure that Facebook is "100 per cent right" in preventing Google's Gmail and other third-party apps from automatically importing email addresses from the social-networking service.
Facebook va-t-il revoir sa politique en matière d'ouverture des données ? Invité au sommet Web 2.0 qui se déroule actuellement à San Francisco, le fondateur et directeur exécutif du réseau social a exprimé quelques doutes sur la politique de fermeture de son réseau social.