Then you should ask your friends not to enter your info into their Gmail address books, and only give your info to you people you trust to honor that request. That's where the trust comes in. If you give your info to people, you must trust that they will not misuse it, whatever "misuse" means to you. Google's import tool would not sneak onto your friends' computers at night and surreptitiously import your data against their wishes, and lacking that tool will not stop your friends from "giving" your info to Google.
Facebook blocking one method for one company to import your data is not security; it's just corporate warfare.
> Facebook blocking one method for one company to import your data is not security; it's just corporate warfare.
Oh, I realise that. And I realise that some companies are necessarily going to get access to some basic contact information like e-mail addresses anyway if they are also in the e-mail business, because we all use mail services for e-mail to work. The fact that Google are in both the e-mail service business and the data mining business is an unfortunate coincidence in this respect, as far as I'm concerned.
I guess I just don't think it's healthy that in 2011, with all the data mining and all the poor security and genuinely harmful consequences of leaks going on, we still rely on things like unencrypted communication and centralised service providers who have direct access to personal data. We can do better now, and we would collectively be significantly safer and probably significantly happier as well if we did. Swapping Facebook spying on your entire life for Google does not seem like a particularly constructive move in that context.
Facebook blocking one method for one company to import your data is not security; it's just corporate warfare.