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Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever." [Your Rights]
Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever." [Your Rights]
This post has generated a lot of responses, including from Facebook. Check them out here. Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Calms Privacy Fears Over TOS Change
Today @ PC World — ... this month, updated its terms of service (those long pages of small text that too many of us almost never read) on February 4. The changes went under the radar, only until a consumer-oriented blog attacked them: "Anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content," flamed The Consumerist in its interpretation . However, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, replied yesterday in a ...

Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know [Privacy]
Lifehacker — ... 's new terms of service caused quite a stir this weekend , prompting many to drop their Facebook accounts altogether. Too hooked on Facebook to cut it off completely? It's time you learned more about your privacy settings. The ...

Facebook Retracts New Terms of Service [Privacy]
Lifehacker — [image] In a late-night blog post responding to the recent outcry over a recent change to Facebook 's terms of service, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network's TOS will revert to a previous version. Check out the new/old terms at Facebook , and be sure to jump into your account and dig into 10 privacy settings every Facebook user should know. Are you glad to see Facebook respond to user concern, or does the social networking cloud leave you as wary as ever?

Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Address User Privacy Concerns at Press Conference Thursday
Today @ PC World — ... in hopes to clarify what user generated Facebook content it owned. Originally the change went largely unnoticed until a bloggers caught wind of the change. The details of the terms of service change were highlighted in an extremely popular blog at the Consumerist Website where people felt Facebook's new terms of service meant "anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later." On February 17 Zuckerberg hoped to ...

Creative Commons Facebook App Licenses Your Facebook Content [Social Networking]
Lifehacker — [image] [image] Ever since Facebook unveiled its new terms of service, users have been concerned over content ownership issues . For those still concerned, the ...

PicoPlay Is a Lightweight, Minimalist Audio Player [Downloads]
Lifehacker — ... Facebook's new terms of service brought to light the serious privacy concerns that changes to user agreements can bring about. Web site TOSBack monitors 44 ...

TOSBack Monitors Terms of Service Changes to Google, Facebook, and 42 Others [Fine Print]
Lifehacker — [image] [image] Facebook's new terms of service brought to light the serious privacy concerns that changes to user agreements can bring about. Web site TOSBack monitors 44 ...

TOSBack Monitors Terms of Service Changes to Google, Facebook, and 44 Others [Fine Print]
Lifehacker — [image] [image] Facebook's new terms of service brought to light the serious privacy concerns that changes to user agreements can bring about. Web site TOSBack monitors 44 ...

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