Facebook’s TOS debacle: Be upset....

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Facebook’s TOS debacle: Be upset....
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Tue, 02-17-2009 - 10:28am
Once posted on the net one can expect it's there "forever".
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Facebook’s TOS debacle: Be upset for a better reason

>"There was some Facebook backlash over the long U.S. weekend that has prompted some calls for boycotts over two sentences that were taken out of the company’s Terms of Services agreement earlier this month. Those sentences once allowed users to delete all of their uploaded content - pics, videos, notes and so on - and walk away from the service with only “archived copies” left behind for Facebook. And one day, that legal language disappeared from the TOS.


That means Facebook can continue to do all the things you allow it to do with your content as a user - stream, publish, copy, store, distribute and, yeah, even sublicense it for promotional purposes - even after you quit. And when the consumer watchdog site, The Consumerist, highlighted the missing language on its blog Sunday evening, the news started to spread.


Users are outraged, so much so that they have started to - yup, you guessed it - form protest groups on Facebook, including one called People Against the new Terms of Service (TOS), which was pushing 16,000 members early Tuesday. But they’re actually getting mad for the wrong reason."<



>"Monday afternoon blog post from CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg:



Our philosophy is that people own their information and control who they share it with. When a person shares information on Facebook, they first need to grant Facebook a license to use that information so that we can show it to the other people they’ve asked us to share it with. Without this license, we couldn’t help people share that information. One of the questions about our new terms of use is whether Facebook can use this information forever. When a person shares something like a message with a friend, two copies of that information are created—one in the person’s sent messages box and the other in their friend’s inbox. Even if the person deactivates their account, their friend still has a copy of that message. We think this is the right way for Facebook to work, and it is consistent with how other services like email work. One of the reasons we updated our terms was to make this more clear.


If I’m understanding what Mark is saying, just because one of my friends decides to delete his account doesn’t mean that I suddenly can no longer see the picture that he uploaded and tagged of me and him. So, in that sense, if the user who uploaded it goes away, the picture stays - and my friends are still free to see it."<

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Tue, 02-17-2009 - 11:29am

I've always assumed that once I put something out there...it's pretty much there permanently in one form or another!