Comments on: Updated: Facebook blocks Scoble for downloading his contacts, sparks revolt

By: Molecular Voices » Facebook Protecting a Competitive Advantage

Molecular Voices » Facebook Protecting a Competitive Advantage — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:00:03 +0000

[...] “Data portability from social networks is going to become a huge tech industry issue in the new year. Why? Because well known tech blogger Robert Scoble has had his Facebook account disabled after he tried to pull out his 5,000 contacts (known as a social graph) from the site. This will fire the starting gun on all the debates about who owns your data on a social network, debates which - till now - have seemed rather theoretical, and could even lead to a revolt amongst some Facebook users.” http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/01/03/facebook-blocks-scoble-for-downloading-his-contacts/ [...]

By: chamtech » Blog Archive » Tech news links 06/01/08 » technology news, comment and views

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:29:26 +0000

[...] Scoble booted off Facebook for allegedly running scripts on his page – not so open a platform then… And the explanation why from Jack Schofield with more Plaxo PR further to up-for-sale stories Cyber thieves target social sites from Mark Ward at BBC Online Using social media [...]

By: Who's are you? The Question of stolen (bits) of identity | WOWNDADI business:productivity:technology

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:57:08 +0000

[...] seal data into their systems. For Scoble this was a flaw. You can read more in the article “Facebook bans Scoble…” by the ever present Mike Butcher of Tech Crunch UK. There is also more detail on the Plaxo [...]

By: Panic {RE}_Programming » Blog Archive » Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Online Privacy

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:44:58 +0000

[...] Popular blogger Robert Scoble was temporarily banned from Facebook for using a programming script to remove his 5,000 contacts from the [...]

By: Murat

Murat — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:56:51 +0000

Here we see facebook’s respect to it’s users,without users there will be no facebook,
it seems facebook’s eyes don’t see anything rather then green dollars
now we see facebook is all about callect persons information and seel it
we saw this in project beacon before

By: Murat

Murat — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:49:05 +0000

Here we see facebook’s respect to it’s users

By: Irregular Enterprise mobile edition

Irregular Enterprise mobile edition — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:02:45 +0000

[...] of detail about European law, Thomas concludes: Robert Scoble’s actions may be perceived as noble in some quarters, but they don’t impress me. He single-handedly bashed through most of the basic principles of [...]

By: Facebook, Scoble, Manifestos and European Privacy Law. « Vendorprisey

Facebook, Scoble, Manifestos and European Privacy Law. « Vendorprisey — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:23:10 +0000

[...] Scoble’s actions may be perceived as noble in some quarters, but they don’t impress me. He single-handedly bashed through most of the basic principles of [...]

By: The Equity Kicker » Blog Archive » Social media, dependency and trust

The Equity Kicker » Blog Archive » Social media, dependency and trust — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:23:49 +0000

[...] till now I have been watching the Scoble Facebook fight in a half interested kind of way. For those of you that are new to this Scoble ran a script to [...]

By: alan p

alan p — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:04:06 +0000

@ dawn….

“If I have let Scoble see my entire profile, meaning my education, my employment, my DOB, etc., and he takes any of that with him, to where ever he is taking it (and no one really knows where it is going), he is violating my right to privacy.

If today it is Robert Scoble, who is to say that tomorrow it’s not someone stealing my identity and using it on sites that are unsavory?”

Wake up and smell the coffee - scraping is already happening on F/B, its just that Scoble got caught (ie he was a bit inept). This is a fact of life, and it will happen again and again - not sure if making it portable will assist, nor putting copyright on it.

Best is, if you don’t want stuff hauled off the net, don’t put it on - or just lie

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:32:16 +0000

I love the irony in this: Facebook today has been named (along with Bebo) one of the best at maintaining your privacy and offering the ability to delete your data should you wish:

http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/01/04/facebook-lauded-for-privacy-and-security-in-the-uk-what-gives/

By: El Mike’s Internet News Blog » Blog Archive » Is There A Conflict Between Open Social Graphs And Your Privacy?

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:16:08 +0000

[...] Robert Scoble has apparently been barred from Facebook for running a script from Plaxo to export his relationship information (or "social [...]

By: Don't Worry About Big Companies & Your Privacy, Worry About Those "Friends" on PSFK

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:06:42 +0000

[...] squabble between geek-blogger Robert Scoble and Facebook provides a glimpse into a future where we don’t have to worry about big [...]

By: TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Facebook lauded for privacy and security in the UK. What gives?

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:52:36 +0000

[...] ironic. Just as Scoble and Faceboook were clashing (then later making up) about who owns his 5000 contacts, a new UK report has named both Facebook [...]

By: Go on Facebook my son, go on « Another flamin’ blog

Go on Facebook my son, go on « Another flamin’ blog — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:08:04 +0000

[...] « My week in media Go on Facebook my son, go on January 4, 2008 This Scoble thing’s a laugh isn’t it? I’m entirely with Facebook (on this, at [...]

By: Stardrinker

Stardrinker — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:26:03 +0000

It’s a case of poster look after yourself and don’t be bloody daft enough to leave your identity all over the place. Robert Scoble allegedly was doing something that is possible but morally dubious depending on the use he puts alleged personal information to ..

Having said that FaceBook might be better called Farcebook or even Farse-book and without the “F” …..arsebook ….Its a crap site that has outlived itself …..Its only my deeply humble opinion though ….Others seems to like having their faces in arsebook …I mean farces in cakebook …Its no good I cannot even say Fuckbook ……Robert get a telephone directory …..And play ….

By: No firetrucks will arrive as online privacy battle heats up | Michael Gracie

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:41:29 +0000

[...] as well as enable people to acquire data on you. I find it amusing that users scream when their Facebook accounts are disabled because they tried to mine some of the data within, but in the Scoble case and many others just [...]

By: jannx

jannx — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:26:48 +0000

I always lie on my profile so this info mining is relatively useless info. The guys I’m worried about are Facebook , not a user like Scoble. Yet ;- )

By: Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:20:43 +0000

Uhmmm … what part of breaking a TOS don’t people get? .. Robert got his hand slapped .. he got reinstated and he got a bunch od publicity .. with an added bonus we all have something to talk about over the weekend

http://www.winextra.com/2008/01/03/hey-robert-i-was-only-kidding/

By: Copacetic » Blog Archive » Social Graphs - What do we own?

Copacetic » Blog Archive » Social Graphs - What do we own? — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:26:16 +0000

[...] watch the blog build up around Scoble’s ejection from Facebook with some amusement today. But its a good question, [...]

By: Vic

Vic — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:00:56 +0000

Ops, should have spell checked my comment before posting

By: jeffjudge.com » Blog Archive » Yep, another reason why Facebook is bullshit

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:00:28 +0000

[...] Facebook blocks user for downloading his contacts [...]

By: Vic

Vic — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:00:03 +0000

It will be interesting to see as to from which IP the comment by ‘dawn’ came from.

Let me guess:

1. IP address of one of the Facebooks PR Agencies
2. An anonymizer/proxy

Mike?

By: How scoble could have gotten his data from Facebook! « Blog For Thought

How scoble could have gotten his data from Facebook! « Blog For Thought — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:47:56 +0000

[...] whats the big deal? Why the hoopla? Everybody is all over this issue. I even twittered scoble with this suggestion. [...]

By: dawn

dawn — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:44:17 +0000

Facebook has created an environment where we only allow access to certain items that we want people to see. If I have let Scoble see my entire profile, meaning my education, my employment, my DOB, etc., and he takes any of that with him, to where ever he is taking it (and no one really knows where it is going), he is violating my right to privacy.

Not only does this affect the careful identity construction that I’ve done, but it also undermines my ability to only be a part of communities that I wish to take part in. He is porting my identity to sites unknown and using it in a way that I haven’t consented to.

If today it is Robert Scoble, who is to say that tomorrow it’s not someone stealing my identity and using it on sites that are unsavory?

Instead of jumping on a revolution bandwagon, we should be thinking about the overwhelming social issues here. I believe in portability for MY OWN identity. I don’t think that you should be allowed to take my information anywhere you want to go with it.