Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations
We need about 100 programmers to go out right now and start writing code that allows users to download and update information from their Facebook social graph. Let them fight a hundred legal battles instead of just one.I've seen this coming for some time. There is going to be a war over who owns the data about each person, the person themselves or some service provider. I know that legally the  service provider owns it, but I'm not thinking that is the way most people see it. This is a case where the law has gotten very far out of sync with the public (and with the first principles of natural law and personal property, but that's a discussion for another time)