One would hope not, but law and common sense can diverge.
The devil's advocate argument is that you don't own the data, you uploaded it to Facebook to use in a limited capacity (e.g. they're not allowed to just broadcast it to the world without your permission or unless they trick you into exposing it with weird 'privacy' options).
To use their service, which happens to use data you gave them willingly, you need to access their server in a manner they are happy with. And they are claiming that using a third party option to access it is forbidden. This is perfectly normal.
In essence this is the EFF trying to establish some ground in a new field. It's nowhere near as cut and dry as they present it, you had the choice to never upload that data in the first place. It's not a safety deposit box where you own the contents, it's a online social site that you chose to use and provide some data in order to be able to use it.
I've got no legal expertise, but that would be my first attempt as a devil's advocate.
But if you don't access it in a manner they are happy with, and thus violate the agreement to use Facebook, then shouldn't Facebook then terminate the agreement and its obligation to service you (aka, delete your account)? Of course facebook does not want to do that, so it seems like using criminal law to enforce their will is a bit unfair.
It's not a safety deposit box where you own the contents, it's a online social site that you chose to use and provide some data in order to be able to use it.
But the natural way people think about their personal information is that they own it. This needs to be codified into law. Perhaps activism along these lines is one of the most important things we should be doing as citizens of a digital age?
The devil's advocate argument is that you don't own the data, you uploaded it to Facebook to use in a limited capacity (e.g. they're not allowed to just broadcast it to the world without your permission or unless they trick you into exposing it with weird 'privacy' options).
To use their service, which happens to use data you gave them willingly, you need to access their server in a manner they are happy with. And they are claiming that using a third party option to access it is forbidden. This is perfectly normal.
In essence this is the EFF trying to establish some ground in a new field. It's nowhere near as cut and dry as they present it, you had the choice to never upload that data in the first place. It's not a safety deposit box where you own the contents, it's a online social site that you chose to use and provide some data in order to be able to use it.
I've got no legal expertise, but that would be my first attempt as a devil's advocate.