Don't look at me. My reading of Peter Watkins' email was that this is the value-add Facebook has for offering Facebook Connect over just being a standard OpenID Provider. I was just asking whether it was legitimate. <br>
<br clear="all">--<br>Andrew Arnott<br>"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - S. G. Tallentyre<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Chris Messina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Andrew Arnott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrewarnott@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrewarnott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br>
<br>(halo on head must assume good intentions everywhere. :-p)<div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>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?</div><div>
<br></div><div>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! ;)</div>
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