FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked

Re:FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leak... by nostrademons on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:05PM (#28867748)

Google used to (c. 2005-2008) let you freely download your contacts & email from GMail, either as a file or an API. Facebook used this to seed Facebook. When you signed up with an @gmail.com account for Facebook, it'd prompt you to import all your contacts, and then send them all an e-mail inviting them to sign up for Facebook.

Google's requests for some reciprocity from Facebook, where users would own their own social graph through technologies like OpenSocial, naturally fell on deaf ears. Google walled off their own platform and decided to abandon open standards for proprietary systems a couple years later, and this is a large reason why we can't have nice things.

I believe GDPR enforces the ability to download all your data and both Google and Facebook offer it, but it's practically useless now. GDPR also makes the regulatory burden of starting a new social network impractical, so it's not like we could get an ecosystem of interoperable competitors.

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Re:FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leak... by HolidayguyNOR on Thursday October 14, 2021 @11:13PM (#28873761)

> I believe GDPR enforces the ability to download all your data

Only data you have provided, both directly (entered name) and indirectly (e.g. page views). Analyses generated by the company based on that data aren't included in the insight right. I would presume both facebook and google have a lot of data that fall in the exempt category.

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