Naive Facebook Users Cry Over Mythical Privacy “Rights”
A bunch of Facebook users who clearly have deluded notions of privacy rights are up in arms over a recent change to the “terms of service” that nobody actually bothered to read when they signed up in the first place:
This month, when Facebook updated its terms, it deleted a provision that said users could remove their content at any time, at which time the license would expire. Further, it added new language that said Facebook would retain users’ content and licenses after an account was terminated. (via)
The notion that you have some right to keeping private that which you have posted on a social network is just plain absurd. Those who desire privacy should not be on social networks, or using the internet at all, really. The days of privacy are pretty much over and have been for a long time.
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February 17, 2009 11:54 am
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By coffee, February 22, 2009 @ 4:24 pm
sounds like Facebook made the same mistake that Google made with their Chrome (web browser) end user license agreement