BREAKING NEWS :: FACEBOOK’S NEW POLICIES ANGER EPIC.ORG
POST by NVus
I just seen this on the news about the new facebook policies, basically Facebook can keep everything and anything you post for their interest and law enforcement even if you cancel your account. Me and some other people were talking about how some people put their whole life of Facebook, which may be koo but you gotta watch what you post up for sure now because they are watching ‘us’ Facebookers.
from CNET
According to PC World, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is getting ready to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, demanding that the massively popular social networking service return to its previous policies.
It appears that the major thrust of EPIC’s–and many others’ anger–at Facebook stems from new language in the privacy policy that grants the company seemingly perpetual control over content users post there:
“You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings….
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You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.
There are currently more than 46,000 members of a Facebook group set up to protest the new policies.
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