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Facebook now owns everything you post, forecver

by DKhoji Feb 16, 2009 3:25AM PST

Now even if you close your Facebook account everything you ever posted on your account belongs to them, forever. They can even license it. See this article on the Consumerist:

http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever

A good friend of mine started up the new "People against the new terms of service" group on Facebook this morning and it already has over 2300 members. You can find it and join here:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=77069107432

Cheers,
Khoji

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once again... if you dont want ppl to know stuff, dont post.
by robstak Feb 16, 2009 5:07AM PST

i do agree that that's a little ridiculous, but i think the point bears repeating that if you put stuff online, anyone can and most probably will keep it...

BUT at the same time, they should not be able to sell your full name... i claim DMCA and i want a cut because my name is (C) 1981 by me! Wink

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Absolutely
by DKhoji Feb 16, 2009 6:18AM PST

...don't put anything online that you don't want to be there forever, but don't tolerate such behavior from Facebook either. Wink

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Now over 16,000 members
by DKhoji Feb 16, 2009 6:48PM PST

There were over 16,000 members in the People Against the new Terms of Service group a few minutes ago, with over a thousand new members per hour. My friend Yojibee who started the group is getting inundated with hundreds of emails and Facebook's lawyers contacted her directly in the middle of the night -- apparently they were very polite and friendly and wanted to know exactly what people were upset about...

Now Facebook seems to be offline, at least in the last few minutes. Funny, that... Of course it may just be a coincidence. Wink

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Now 72,000+ members and Facebook caved...
by DKhoji Feb 17, 2009 7:04PM PST
http://consumerist.com/5155538/facebook-privacy-fallout-goes-nuclear?skyline=true&s=x

Amazingly, the group is still growing at 1-2 thousand members an hour, at least at the moment. Anne Catherine/Yojibee who started the group is a close friend and I know why she succeeded in developing so much traction when the other almost identical groups only got a couple of thousand members. She's a brilliant communicator, with an amazing web of connections, and when she gets those wheels turning things happen.

Nice blog posting on her efforts from one of her fellow SAP employees (she just got hired away from SAP by a Norwegian high-tech firm):

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/13239

She just got put on the cover of Dagbladet (she's Norwegian):

http://www.dagbladet.no/
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Speaking of which
by Nicholas Buenk Feb 17, 2009 8:16PM PST

Are we sure cnet doesn't own everything we say forever.
Somebody actually read facebooks terms of service, have any of us read cnets? Wink

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