Last week or before when Facebook, MySpace and Google announced their plans to share user information with other sites. They all wanted to keep their users information and activities within one wall. In order to accomplish this task, they have no choice but to work together.
Facebook's Charlie Cheever stated in a blog that Google's Friend Connect redistributes users personal information from Facebook to other developers without their knowledge, and that such a practice "doesn't respect the privacy standards our users have... and is a violation of our terms of service."
So he stated that Facebook had no choice but to ban Friend Connect.
However, Google employees described how Friend Connect works. It says, "We behave like any other caller of the Facebook API. (See the Facebook developer API documentation for details.) When a user links their Facebook account with Google Friend Connect they must consent to this on Facebook itself..." and goes on to detail the steps to completing info share.
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