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.

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.

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