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Why Facebook will never give your data back
By Martin English | January 4, 2008
Famous Blogger/Internet socialite Robert Scoble has a problem. In attempting to scrape his personal data from Facebook (where he *had* several thousand “friends”) he angered some of Facebook’s internal monitoring drones and was forcefully removed from the service. True enough, what he was doing clearly violates Facebook’s terms of service which state, “Thou shall not use automated means to scrape thine own data” but, should Facebook be allowed to collect your data from you, and then forbid you from getting a copy?
Update: Facebook has reactivated Scoble’s account, after he promised never to run a script like Plaxo’s Pulse again. We’re left to wonder if the account would have been re-enabled if he weren’t Robert Scoble, or if this story wasn’t the number one thing on Techmeme today.
Topics: Politics, Security, Web / Web 2.0 | No Comments »
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