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This process implies

1) downloading all friends' profile pics from Facebook

2) manually going through each contact and linking them to proper Facebook identity

3) repeating the process every now and then for people who change their phone numbers, change profile pics, or just weren't in the contacts list since they haven't called before

Shouldn't be too hard to build such app with existing Facebook API.



"Shouldn't be too hard to build such app with existing Facebook API."

But not with the current T&C. Developers can access friends' photos, but cannot store them. Even relationships between users can only be cached for a modest period of time, not stored.


I believe profile pics have a different treatment than photos (privacy on photos is dynamic and can be revoked, while on profile pics it's public) and together with friend lists are considered part of user data.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/best-practices/ "You can cache user data indefinitely, but we strongly recommend you use the Realtime API to keep user data current."




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