Prior to this change in their terms of service, Facebook said it could do whatever it wanted with your uploaded content up to and until the point you deleted your Facebook account. Now they have changed the Terms Of Service such that they assert the right that they can continue to do whatever they want with your uploaded content even after you delete your Facebook account.
That pic of you with a former boy-/girl-friend you take down after the relationship ends, they keep it and can keep using it long after you take down the pic. The comments posted on your job that you thought would only be seen by your friends, they keep even after you have deleted them. Anything you post on Facebook they keep and can use it for their own purposes without having to get permission from you to do so.
All my friends with Facebook are giving away, forever, their rights to all the content they upload to Facebook. And some of them are quite tech and/or law savvy. I just don’t get the willingness to completely give up all legal rights to one’s personal thoughts and photographs. It boggles my mind.
As for me and my blog here on WordPress, I own the copyright to all the personal content I post here. Unless I post something here from someone else’s website, all the content on this blog is copyrighted to me. (Except for the various WordPress icons, logos, and links automatically generated when I make a blog posting; Those copyrights belong to WordPress.)
You Wonder Why I Don’t Like Facebook
This is why.
Consumerist - Facebook’s New Terms Of Service Say It Can Do Anything It Wants With Your Content. Forever.
Prior to this change in their terms of service, Facebook said it could do whatever it wanted with your uploaded content up to and until the point you deleted your Facebook account. Now they have changed the Terms Of Service such that they assert the right that they can continue to do whatever they want with your uploaded content even after you delete your Facebook account.
That pic of you with a former boy-/girl-friend you take down after the relationship ends, they keep it and can keep using it long after you take down the pic. The comments posted on your job that you thought would only be seen by your friends, they keep even after you have deleted them. Anything you post on Facebook they keep and can use it for their own purposes without having to get permission from you to do so.
All my friends with Facebook are giving away, forever, their rights to all the content they upload to Facebook. And some of them are quite tech and/or law savvy. I just don’t get the willingness to completely give up all legal rights to one’s personal thoughts and photographs. It boggles my mind.
As for me and my blog here on WordPress, I own the copyright to all the personal content I post here. Unless I post something here from someone else’s website, all the content on this blog is copyrighted to me. (Except for the various WordPress icons, logos, and links automatically generated when I make a blog posting; Those copyrights belong to WordPress.)