Facebook announced that they have denied Google Friend Connect access to Facebook user data.
The Google Friend Connect service would allow any Web site to have social networking features. This would allow users to go on a different Web site, and access their photos, profile, blogs, etc and update them accordingly.
Facebook is apparently not up for this idea at all though as they do not want Facebook users to interact with Google Friend Connect it seems.
Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever wrote in a blog post that “We’ve found that Google Friend Connect redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service.”
Google has argued that it is not a privacy issue at all, as all Google Friend Connect does is give users full control over their data.
We will have to wait and see how this turns out, but it is clear and apparent that Facebook is not in the mood to connect with Google in any way as of right now.
