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Re: Facebook & Addressbook Snarfing Pt II: Speeddate.com = the Gander?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 06:26:42 -0700
________________________________________ From: Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. [amitchell () isipp com] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:15 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Facebook & Addressbook Snarfing Pt II: Speeddate.com = the Gander? Dave, Best practices advises against offering address book importing in any form which requires your user to enter their username and password for a third-party service, and we have a firm policy that we will *not* accredit a company which does it. Perhaps more interesting to your readers might be this article we wrote about the practice (with Flixster at the subject) - which garnered so much attention that the CEO of Flixster himself came and entered into a dialogue through the comments section, trying to justify the practice: http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/is-flixster-a-big-fat-spammer-are- they-hacking-your-aol-or-hotmail-address-book We also exposed one of the companies that is selling the software/ scriptware to do it: http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/the-company-behind-all-that-address- book-scraping Again, it's *very* bad policy; the internet receiving and security industries have spent *years* educating users to *never* enter their passwords in third-party sites; now, within a year or so, the social networking and other sites have nearly completely undone that education, all in the name of making an extra buck by spamming all of their users' friends. Kind regards, Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Esq CEO/President Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy http://www.ISIPP.com/ Professor of Law, Lincoln Law School of SJ Author, "The Email Deliverability Handbook" Helping ISPs keep the spam out, and legitimate businesses get their email in, since 1998 http://www.SuretyMail.com/ - a division of ISIPP ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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