If You Were Facebook, Would You Let Google Make You Open Your Contacts List?

Friends of Facebook and users of Google's Gmail, will want to pay attention to an escalating war-of-words over who has the rights to users' personal data. As the two giants of social media fight over your information, who do you trust and who has the upper-hand?

Friends of Facebook and users of Google’s Gmail, will want to pay attention to an escalating war-of-words over who has the rights to users’ personal data. As the two giants of social media fight over your information, who do you trust and who has the upper-hand?


The first bomb in this virtual war was thrown by Google last week when it announced it would no longer allow Facebook to obtain information about Google users’ contacts in Gmail, the search engine’s email service.

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