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Facebook and Google: True Social Networking Friends

Posted on May 16, 2008

From News.com:A post Thursday on Facebook's developer blog explains that the social network has suspended participation in Google's Friend Connect project, citing a violation of its internal terms of service. Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we've had a chance to evaluate the technology, the post by Facebook employee Charlie Cheever read. We've found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge, which doesn't respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service. Now come on. Y...

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