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Ask HN: How come quora.com blatantly violates Facebook auth terms?

1 points by propercoil ↗ HN
When using quora's facebook authentication, they copied my email address to their database (rather than using fb tokens) and copied my facebook profile photo to their own cdn.

This clearly violates facebook's terms of service for third party authentication (i know this because i was working with a company that actually read the terms and decided not to use auth with facebook because of it).

Do they have a special deal with facebook or am i missing something here?

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loceng
I've had a hunch that Facebook is planning to buy Quora at some point, perhaps once a certain benchmark is reached; Quora received a very large investment at one point, giving them a very large valuation - similarly as Instagram received, and then Facebook bought them. I think this all in part is an effort to reenforce psychologically / show the perception that Facebook et al are worth the numbers being thrown out for them.