Facebook, after much opposition, has reverted its terms to the old one prior to the recent changes. Thank goodness!
See the previous post for information regarding the changes Facebook made to its terms of service.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Facebook Owns You
I just heard the news that Facebook has updated its terms of service.
Now it claims that it owns or at least shares your uploaded content!!!
It gives them the right to use and sublicense your uploaded content in anyway they see fit (though they claim fairplay!) even after you "delete" anything. They can use your photos in ads for example. They can use your name, image and likeness for commercial purposes and advertisement.
Of course a reaction has been boiling up against this change. 80,000+ users joined a group protesting these new terms ("People Against the new Terms of Service (TOS)"). What happened to Facebook! It is no longer the little innocent startup; they have transformed into another evil empire :S. They even hold the right to use content you have deleted from their network!!!!! This is outrageous! The other social networks are not like this. Twitter has no intellectual right to your content. Myspace can use your non-private content for myspace services only and this right is deleted with the deletion of the content. Youtube also claims a limited license to your uploaded videos and this halts after deletion.
This is an insidious move by Facebook!
For a detailed description, visit here
Now it claims that it owns or at least shares your uploaded content!!!
It gives them the right to use and sublicense your uploaded content in anyway they see fit (though they claim fairplay!) even after you "delete" anything. They can use your photos in ads for example. They can use your name, image and likeness for commercial purposes and advertisement.
Of course a reaction has been boiling up against this change. 80,000+ users joined a group protesting these new terms ("People Against the new Terms of Service (TOS)"). What happened to Facebook! It is no longer the little innocent startup; they have transformed into another evil empire :S. They even hold the right to use content you have deleted from their network!!!!! This is outrageous! The other social networks are not like this. Twitter has no intellectual right to your content. Myspace can use your non-private content for myspace services only and this right is deleted with the deletion of the content. Youtube also claims a limited license to your uploaded videos and this halts after deletion.
This is an insidious move by Facebook!
For a detailed description, visit here
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