Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn’t involve openness or portability of data, it seems. Today they wrote a long 7 paragraph blog post to get a single point across: Facebook has banned Google’s Friend Connect access to the Facebook API: Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we?ve had a chance to evaluate the technology. We?ve found that it 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. Just as we?ve been forced to do for other applications that redistribute data in a way use ...