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Re:Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data e... by jiggy2011 on Thursday October 25, 2012 @02:44PM (#4698904)
There's a few practical problems with creating that kind of legislation though.

How do you decide who has to comply with it? Every time I build a website that collects any data from users at all, do I have to also create an API for accessing that data?

Bigger companies such as FB and Google would most likely just move stuff offshore to get around this anyway.

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Re:Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data e... by runjake on Thursday October 25, 2012 @07:35PM (#4700131)
Google already provides for this to some extent:

http://www.dataliberation.org/

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Re:Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data e... by skymt on Thursday October 25, 2012 @03:55PM (#4699208)
It doesn't necessarily need to be a full API. How about a database dump, or even a .csv? Just some way to get the data out of one system and into another.
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Re:Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data e... by jiggy2011 on Thursday October 25, 2012 @04:02PM (#4699257)
That's still a bunch of extra work for a small program, considering you have to worry about security and data protection. Making sure that you don't leak anybody elses data.
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Re:Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data e... by VexXtreme on Thursday October 25, 2012 @07:21PM (#4700088)
Actually, Google DOES have data export features.

They can be found here: https://www.google.com/settings/exportdata

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