Give Us Our Data, Facebook

I usually give Facebook the benefit of the doubt in its various wars with the press and users, particularly around privacy issues. Mostly because user expectations around privacy are changing in real time. Things that were reprehensible just a couple of years ago are now considered so mainstream that even Salesforce will buy them and no one blinks. So when Facebook redefines privacy to remove actual privacy, I take a wait and see approach. I've taken the same approach on data portability. For a good two years we've all been waiting for Facebook to let our data out. They've done so in drips and drabs, but the crown jewels - user emails - remain locked up.

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