Google Asks Users To Complain Against Facebook

dkd903 writes "A kind of war has been going on recently between Facebook and Google over a contact export issue. First, Google blocked Facebook access to the Gmail contacts API. To this, Facebook responded back with a new method to get Gmail contacts of a user (the download contacts option). And now Google has slapped back again at Facebook and asks users indirectly to file a data protectionism complaint against Facebook. When a Facebook user clicks on the Download Your Contacts button on the 'Facebook import contact via Gmail' page, the user is then redirected to a new page on Google's server, which looks something like this..." Can I just say that watching this is absolutely hysterical?

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Could this Backfire?

[DavidD_CA]

I see Facebook starting a class action against Google, claiming that they are limiting the rights of its users to access their own data in a way that they are volunteering to do.

Further, Facebook could sue directly saying that Google is unfairly limiting Facebook's access to the API whereas other organizations are not limited. Why target just Facebook?

And where are all the Slashdot Freedom Fans? Why aren't you crying fowl against Google for limiting what YOU can do with YOUR data that Google is holding hostage?