Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Can we really trust Facebook now?


Earlier this month Facebook introduced new Terms of Service that has the potential to seriously affect your personal Facebook page - and everything on it.

Basically Facebook claimed rights to all your stuff on Facebook even after you remove it, and even after you delete your Facebook account. If I understand it correctly, that's rights forever for all your pictures, status update, videos, ... every thing.

Very, very, scary.

Well, after a lot of pressure, and as of this morning, Facebook has changed its policy back to the way it was. But can we really trust Facebook now? What will it try in the future? Obviously many people will be watching them very closely but when that many people (more than 175 million people use Facebook) put that much very personal informaiton online -- the tempatation to do "the wrong thing" is great for companies looking to make a buck.

Beware.

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