Last February 16,2009, a news leaked that a popular social networking site, Facebook, stated in their terms of service that if you want to be a member of this site then all your pictures, files and personal information that you will post in the site will be legally in their disposal.
The TOS says the following:
"You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof."
English translation: "All your stuff will be theirs and at their disposal anytime, anywhere with or without your permission"
People joining such sites never really read the the terms of service that the site offers that is why this information was discovered just recently. Some members of the said site and even non-members are now actually thinking of (or is already) boycotting Facebook.
Howerver, the folks over at Facebook are now working quickly with their legal team to fix their "terms of service"
The following message is the greeting when you now login to Facebook:
Terms of Use Update
Over the past few days, we have received a lot of good feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.
All is well, for now.
Lesson learned: Next time read out the Terms of Service of the site you want to join.. you'll never know what they might want in return.
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4 comments:
i also heard so many complain about the facebook TOS in youtube hehe, but i think facebook already change the TOS if i not mistaken :)
Haha. I dnt read TOS. Hehe.
actually i like facebook so much... :D
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