Peaches Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Facebook Flap Last month, Facebook quietly changed its terms of service to grant itself "an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license" to anything you upload. When news finally hit the blogosphere this week, Facebook users were outraged--even though CEO Mark Zuckerberg insisted his company would never use its powers for evil. After much brouhaha, Facebook went back to its old TOS. Read on for a look at the privacy issues involved, Zuckerberg's initial response, and more on Facebook's about-face. "Facebook's Privacy Flap: What Really Went Down, and What's Next": Facebook isn't out of the privacy hot seat yet. Despite measures to reinstate a less-intrusive privacy policy, Facebook is still under the microscope. http://www.pcworld.com/article/159743/article.html?tk=nl_spxblg also read here: http://blog.trendmicro.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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