Obtain information from Facebook public profiles through Facebook API

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Published on 2010-03-31T02:43:03Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 3:03 UTC
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I've started a little project about marketing research over social networks. Basically we need to gather information from public profiles and conduct some statistical analysis over this data. I want to know if the Facebook API lets you query information from the public profiles without them having to authorize your app.

Is this feasible? Is this legal? Any useful link?

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