February172009
Once a Facebook member, always a Facebook member. »
The Consumerist blog noticed Sunday that the social-networking giant had quietly made a change to its user Terms of Service (TOS) on Feb. 4. Facebook now declares that it has a perpetual license to use anything you post to your own Facebook page - even if you terminate your account.
“Facebook’s terms of service used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.
So make sure you never upload anything you don’t feel comfortable giving away forever, because it’s Facebook’s now. Oh, you also agree to arbitration, naturally. Have fun with that.”
Intense stuff, this. The evil empire grows.
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