Sahail AshrafFacebook: just where does personal information go
November 16th 2007 03:00
We are all familiar with social networking sites today, like MySpace, Facebook and Hi5; but how many of us actually know the fine print?
According to ninemsn today; when you give your personal information to Facebook, you have given them an 'irrevocable and perpetual...world wide license' to use your personal information.
Personally I find this just a little alarming, given that a lot of the users on these sites are minors! Now I'm not a lawyer, and I certain don't have very much legal knowledge, but I would be very curious to see as to whether a minor could be held to this sort of contract! (If anyone knows, let me know!)
What disturbs me even more than this though, is that unlike other social networking sites like MySpace, you can't seem to opt out of facebook. You can, it is true 'deactivate' site, but as the ninemsn story reported, that doesn't delete your person information, it's still stored on that giant database!
Oh and for those of you who've bothered to do the search, yes I'm aware that I happen to have a MySpace page, and no: I too didn't read the fine print... After reading this however, I am certainly going to be a lot more careful, are you?
According to ninemsn today; when you give your personal information to Facebook, you have given them an 'irrevocable and perpetual...world wide license' to use your personal information.
Personally I find this just a little alarming, given that a lot of the users on these sites are minors! Now I'm not a lawyer, and I certain don't have very much legal knowledge, but I would be very curious to see as to whether a minor could be held to this sort of contract! (If anyone knows, let me know!)
What disturbs me even more than this though, is that unlike other social networking sites like MySpace, you can't seem to opt out of facebook. You can, it is true 'deactivate' site, but as the ninemsn story reported, that doesn't delete your person information, it's still stored on that giant database!
Oh and for those of you who've bothered to do the search, yes I'm aware that I happen to have a MySpace page, and no: I too didn't read the fine print... After reading this however, I am certainly going to be a lot more careful, are you?
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