Google: Facebook Can’t Import Our User Data Any Longer Without Reciprocity
This is bad. First of all, while it clearly targets Facebook, what about my confidential work contacts that I upload in salesforce or exchange? Now my company has an obligation to let Google export my contacts?<p>Second, if you read carefully, the condition is impossible to meet:<p><i>in a way that’s substantially as fast and easy as exporting such data from Google Contacts</i><p>I would argue that since Google claims to be the fastest service out there, no one can be as fast as they are. And when they come with a twice as fast, and one-click export, it will automatically force hundreds of small apps to align or die? That doesn't make any sense and was poorly written.<p>Third, it's my data. I should own it. If I give permission to give it to Facebook, I don't want Google to have any say or impose any conditions.