Facebook prohibits power.com from accessing its data

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time January 3, according to foreign media reports, Facebook recently to the United States social networking service provider Power.com sued, accusing the latter of infringing its copyright and trademarks.

Soon after the power.com was online, it provided internet users with different content integration services on major social networking sites such as Facebook, Orkut, Hi5 and MySpace. Through power.com, netizens can view their activities on all social networking sites at the same time.

In this regard, Facebook believes that power.com has stored a lot of confidential information about Facebook users on its servers while stealing other "proprietary data" from Facebook. As a result, Facebook filed a lawsuit against Power.com on December 30, saying the latter violated its data-use terms, copyrights and trademarks.

Facebook's move is basically similar to the previous ban on Google friend Connect. Last May, Facebook blocked Google's friend connect service from accessing Facebook account information.

A few days ago, Power.com has canceled access to Facebook user accounts. "If Google Friend Connect is a cautionary tale," said Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, a leading American technology blogger, Michael Al So power.com can never be allowed to access Facebook user information in the short term. (Li Ming)