Facebook goes back to old policies after millions of users complained about who owns the rights to their pictures, videos, and personal information that they share on the social networking website.
A couple of weeks ago Facebook changed their user policies that went unnoticed until Sunday when a popular blog, Consumerist.com, wrote a post titling it “Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: ‘We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”
This sent the 175 users of Facebook in an uproar. Some users deleted their Facebook page, other users created protest groups on Facebook, “saying the new terms grant the site the ability to control their information forever, even after they cancel their accounts.”
The following Wednesday, after thousands of people complained, when users logged onto their Facebook accounts they were greeted with a messages saying they had returned to their old polices while the issues were being resolved.
“On Facebook, people own their information and control who they share it with,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder said. Facebook needs a license to help you share information with other people, but doesn’t claim to own your information.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/19/AR2009021900574.html?sub=AR
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This controversy seems to reinforce the warning that people should not post anything online that they wouldn't want their mother or future employers to see someday.
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