Google Asks Users To Complain Against Facebook

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @05:00AM from the battle-of-the-billions dept.

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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Re:Great. I'm doing it now by MozeeToby · 2010-11-10 06:11 · Score: 0, Troll

That's an awfully high level summary, considering that Google keeps track of every search term you've ever entered, being able to see which services you've signed up for isn't quite the level of detail that I had in mind.