Facebook Sues Data Geek, but That Doesn't Solve Its Privacy Problem

A computer programmer culls data from 210 million Facebook profiles--and pisses Facebook off in the process.

Remember those fascinating graphs by Peter Warden that used Facebook data to illustrate, for example, people's interests and common names across the U.S.? Facebook has totally squashed the project. But the privacy concerns remain.

Warden gathered that data from public profiles using "crawling" software similar to what's commonly available on the Web; he was planning to release the set...