Facebook blocked Google’s
service, Friend Connect, from accessing the personal information of its
members. This service was designed to ease people’s accessibility to other
sites and to let them reuse the content of their profile in those sites. The
concept was invented to save people’s time and patience, whenever they wanted
to get connected to different sites and let their profile be seen by other
people, giving details about their interests, list of friends, photos, likes
and dislikes.
The main flaw of this service is
that there is a leak of personal information without their knowledge, on any
site the users visit. This reveals that the reason for which this service was
blocked by Facebook was the non-compliance of the Google Friend Connect with
the Facebook’s terms of service, more exactly it does not respect “the privacy
standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our terms of
service," as Charlie Cheever, the Facebook engineer, affirms on a blog
site.
What is to be done with this
issue? As long as “Google does not fully understand what it needs to do in
order to comply with Facebook's terms of service,” as the Google Engineering
Director David Glazer affirmed in a phone interview with PC World, the issue
remains on the waiting list.
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