Facebook's Users Ask Who Owns Their Information - NYTimes.com - 40 views
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The online exchanges reflected the uneasy and evolving balance between sharing information and retaining control over that information on the Internet.
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unflattering light onto the pages of legal language that many users accept without reading when they use a Web site.
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it deleted a provision that said users could remove their content at any time, at which time the license would expire. Further, it added new language that said Facebook would retain users’ content and licenses after an account was terminated.
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“anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later.”
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“Most Web sites today offer terms of service that are designed to protect and further the interests of the company writing the terms, and most people simply agree to terms without reading them.”
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Why would anyone trust a company with his or her personal information, especially when that company’s explicit legal language claims eternal rights to exploit that information, and there is good reason to expect that they will?”
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I do not like the idea that Facebook can advertise or giveout my personal information or any information that i write down in confidence of it being secure. This right they give themselves allows them to use our personal information and writen documentation in ways that could be degrading and possibly dangerous if the wrong people get hold of the information. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_zuckerberg_says_the_age_of_privacy_is_ov.php This link above is about an interview with the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, it contains statemnets about the new privacy policy.