The Story Behind Facebook Threatening To Sue Developer
Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 06 April 2010
As his crawler worked, it started collecting a bunch of interesting data, and so he set up a website to let people explore some of this (again, public) data.
He noted that if others (such as professional researchers) wanted to dig into the data, he would let them access a version of the data set (with identifying info stripped).
"The attorney said that they were just about to sue me into oblivion, but in light of my previous good relationship with their security team, they'd give me one chance to stop the process."
The same Facebook which announced it will share your data with third parties unless you opt-out. The same Facebook whose CEO Zuckerberg said privacy is over. The same Facebook which will keep your data archived even if you delete it. Sharing data is not so nice when it's the data which you have collected, right Mark?