Facebook insulate its network of system Google Friend Connect
Manual Facebook blocked the work of Google Friend Connect with profiles of users of their social network. This was reported in the blog Officer Charlie Chivera Facebook.
Service Google Friend Connect, to earn this week, lets you add social-oriented functions to conventional sites. For this, you simply select from the collection offered by Google snippets of code responsible for this or that functionality, and then paste this code into a web page. By resources, using Friend Connect, visitors can connect, for example, using their accounts in Google, Yahoo and AIM. In addition, the system Friend Connect allows subscribers to interact with popular social networks such as Facebook, hi5, Orkut, Plaxo and others.
However, Facebook said that the methods of collecting information about users, a system Google Friend Connect, run counter to the policies of the social network. Charlie Cheever writes that Friend Connect "third-party developers to provide information about users of social networks without their knowledge." And that, according to Chivera, does not meet the standards for ensuring the confidentiality of the online Facebook. It is therefore obliged to block Facebook Friend Connect.
Facebook has already contacted Google and discusses possible ways out of this situation. However, as reported by PC World with reference to statements by technical director David Gleyzera Google, the search giant has not quite understand what it wants to Facebook. According to Gleyzera when designing the system Friend Connect Google is carefully monitored so that Internet users in any of the steps to monitor the movement of their personal information.
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