Facebook apparently owns all User Content now

Cases where web services try to invade user privacy by secretly introducing new phrases to theirs terms of services are not new at all. We have already witnessed Google doing so a while ago and now it looks like as if Facebook is here to follow the lead too.

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Facebook recently updated its terms of service and according to the new terms, Facebook now reserves all rights to the original content that you upload or have already uploaded (which includes all text, photos, links, notes, videos etc) even after if you choose to close your account on the network or if your account gets disabled for some reason (to which Facebook is not answerable, again all thanks to the terms of services).

It won't create any sort of a serious problem perhaps because users who upload or share any sort of their personal content on the web already understand the stakes and risks involved in maintaining the user privacy on the Internet and certainly most of the users are also aware that the content they share is made public anyway.

But putting this down to a legal statement definitely raises some concerns for the average users as it snatches away all forms of controls from them and also irritates them a bit.

  • May the force be with you
  • And why isn't anyone complaining ?
  • Vadim P.
    You agreed to the TOS = you agreed to all changes they might ever make (it's probably in the TOS). Denying the law is just silly, because it is a law that you yourself agreed to.

    This makes me glad I'm not on Facebook though. Won't ever be at this progress too.
  • What's the big deal? I still haven't figured it out. You choose to upload your material to a social networking web site, where millions of people have access and can download that file, but as soon as a company says they're going to do it you freak out? I don't know, it just seems like people are over reacting. Maybe I'm more okay with my stuff being on Facebook than other people though.
  • No one actually gives them the rights to our content. That is our intellectual property and they have no right to resell or reuse any information we provide. Though they aren't the only ones doing it.
  • Hamad Ahmad
    That bastard !
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