I think this was a really poor move on Facebook's part. TOS are often worded and seem a lot worse than they are. By putting this supposed screw up in front of all 175 million members, they really made the issue a lot bigger. Before that, most people who cared were Alpha Geeks and privacy nuts that like to whine about any issue.
If they ACTUALLY sold your data after you left, that might cause a huge uproar. I don't think they would be dumb enough to do that. Also, how valuable is the data of a user that isnt even there anymore. Yup, I can see advertisers really seeing value in selling a product to a user that doesn't exist anymore. Most likely, the real reason for keeping some of that data, is to keep it as part of the overall data they can mine / use algorithim's with.
Drafting a bill of rights seems like a good move. If anything they should have used this opportunity as a chance to talk with everyone, gather some valuable feedback, and then change the terms of use. Jumping the gun and reverting back just doesn't make sense. Imagine if they did this with the Newsfeed back in 06.
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I think this was a really poor move on Facebook's part. TOS are often worded and seem a lot worse than they are. By putting this supposed screw up in front of all 175 million members, they really made the issue a lot bigger. Before that, most people who cared were Alpha Geeks and privacy nuts that like to whine about any issue.
If they ACTUALLY sold your data after you left, that might cause a huge uproar. I don't think they would be dumb enough to do that. Also, how valuable is the data of a user that isnt even there anymore. Yup, I can see advertisers really seeing value in selling a product to a user that doesn't exist anymore. Most likely, the real reason for keeping some of that data, is to keep it as part of the overall data they can mine / use algorithim's with.
Drafting a bill of rights seems like a good move. If anything they should have used this opportunity as a chance to talk with everyone, gather some valuable feedback, and then change the terms of use. Jumping the gun and reverting back just doesn't make sense. Imagine if they did this with the Newsfeed back in 06.