Facebook OWNS your content FOREVER! Just Out!
Hey all,
I just found out about Facebook’s new content policy.
Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.
I checked it out for myself under the LICENSES section of their Terms of Use.
The whole "We can do anything we want with your content forever" is too much to take. It basically means that anything you put on facebook becomes their property forever … even if you close your account.
Pass this along if you care at all about privacy.
http://www.facebook.com/terms.php
http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-...
[mod note: posted here yesterday; http://www.qatarliving.com/node/381255 ]
thanks for posting ditto. good to know, will check it out now...............
"Terms of Use Update
A couple of weeks ago, we posted an update to our Terms of Use that we hoped would clarify some parts of it for our users. Over the past couple of days, we have received a lot of questions and comments about these updated terms and what they mean for people and their information. Because of the feedback we received, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised. For more information, visit the Facebook Blog"