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by dtsingletary 4931 days ago
While you can see this data from Facebook--and yes, that's jarring-- what you're allowed to do with it is something different. You can't sell it, you can't sell it to an ad network/exchange, you can't retain it after the user revokes permission; you can't even sell derivatives of the data.

Facebook Connect is the most benign of these sorts of things there are-- it's access to data, and the implementors of its widgets and API-- have an onus to protect it.

Now, of course, there's plenty of bad actors out there, and I'm sure it's sold and exchanged, but technically and legally speaking, you're forbidden from doing so.