Facebook is coming under attack for its recently updated "Terms of Service". The new policy basically allows Facebook to own ALL content on your profile, ever after you delete your account. While Facebook hasn't sold personal information in the past, with this new policy, even the licensing of your personal photos would be legal.
There is certainly reason to be concerned, but Facebook is claiming they will not claim ownership of user uploaded content in recently released statement:
"We are not claiming and have never claimed ownership of material that
users upload. The new Terms were clarified to be more consistent with
the behavior of the site. That is, if you send a message to another
user (or post to their wall, etc…), that content might not be removed
by Facebook if you delete your account (but can be deleted by your
friend). Furthermore, it is important to note that this license is made
subject to the user's privacy settings. So any limitations that a user
puts on display of the relevant content (e.g. To specific friends) are
respected by Facebook. Also, the license only allows us to use the info 'in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.'
Users generally expect and understand this behavior as it has been a
common practice for web services since the advent of webmail. For
example, if you send a message to a friend on a webmail service, that
service will not delete that message from your friend's inbox if you
delete your account."
In the past Facebook has been responsible in their use of member content, let's hope they keep it like that. What do you guys think of their new licensing policies?
– Andy
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