[OpenID] Facebook support for OpenID. Where?

[Chris Messina]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Andrew Arnott <andrewarnott at gmail.com>wrote:

> Has Facebook made any concessions or promises about whether they leverage
> their opportunity to scrape user data from all these .js HTTP GETs?  Maybe
> they don't use it and it's no big deal to them to not have that source of
> data.  It may be an innocent consequence of offering the .js on every page
> of an RP.
>
> (halo on head must assume good intentions everywhere. :-p)
>

Not sure I understand what you mean? Are you asking about whether Facebook's
cross-domain receiver that enables Facebook Connect is scraping data on the
relying party sites?

That seems somewhat odd and paranoid to me. I presume that you ask the same
thing about every site that uses Google Analytics — where quite obviously
data is being scraped and computed against?

In any case, I don't have an answer to your question, but I'm pretty sure
Facebook has more pressing things to worry about — namely making its
platform more valuable — after all, they already know just about everything
about you... because you told them! ;)

Chris


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