> Facebook blocking one method for one company to import your data is not security; it's just corporate warfare.
Oh, I realise that. And I realise that some companies are necessarily going to get access to some basic contact information like e-mail addresses anyway if they are also in the e-mail business, because we all use mail services for e-mail to work. The fact that Google are in both the e-mail service business and the data mining business is an unfortunate coincidence in this respect, as far as I'm concerned.
I guess I just don't think it's healthy that in 2011, with all the data mining and all the poor security and genuinely harmful consequences of leaks going on, we still rely on things like unencrypted communication and centralised service providers who have direct access to personal data. We can do better now, and we would collectively be significantly safer and probably significantly happier as well if we did. Swapping Facebook spying on your entire life for Google does not seem like a particularly constructive move in that context.
Oh, I realise that. And I realise that some companies are necessarily going to get access to some basic contact information like e-mail addresses anyway if they are also in the e-mail business, because we all use mail services for e-mail to work. The fact that Google are in both the e-mail service business and the data mining business is an unfortunate coincidence in this respect, as far as I'm concerned.
I guess I just don't think it's healthy that in 2011, with all the data mining and all the poor security and genuinely harmful consequences of leaks going on, we still rely on things like unencrypted communication and centralised service providers who have direct access to personal data. We can do better now, and we would collectively be significantly safer and probably significantly happier as well if we did. Swapping Facebook spying on your entire life for Google does not seem like a particularly constructive move in that context.