Facebooks' new TOS: they KEEP all of your content.

no1_vern · February 16th, 2009, 08:19 AM

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Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.

Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.

O, also you agree to arbitrate any problems you have

. As Consumerist says "good luck with that"

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**GroundZero3** · February 16th, 2009, 08:23 AM

Ohhhhhh glad I don't upload anything to them anymore.

Flickr I believe has the same policies too. Ive noticed that when I closed my account down once, and opened it back up everything was still there. It really sucks that you cant delete it

KarmaKiller · February 16th, 2009, 08:50 AM

Glad I don't sign up on the "social networking" sites.

ShyguyXPC · February 16th, 2009, 12:56 PM

after that, I just deleted all my pics of the 3D stuff I did. leaving only unimportant images on facebook now.

thats kind of BS, they should of sent out some sort of notice to members & let them decide with in a reasonable amount of time to delete or keep their images on the site.

vass0922 · February 16th, 2009, 10:47 PM

Facebook: Relax, we won't sell your photos | The Social - CNET News

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And second, if that Facebook content was not public, the site will respect the member's chosen privacy settings. In other words, if your profile and the photos you have uploaded to it are only accessible to people on your friends list, Facebook says it does not have the right to show those photos to anyone outside your friends list.

at least thats their official statement

ShyguyXPC · February 17th, 2009, 05:44 AM

For now... but since their being that "honest" & open about their intentions, why couldn't they have simply issued a statement or email to all users several weeks in advance of notification that part of the TOS was changing?

granted they may be sincere about the above statement, but the actions prior to that is enough to make someone think twice about it.

**GroundZero3** · February 17th, 2009, 05:46 AM

When I logged in the day vern posted this I was welcomed to the new TOS agreement. You weren't at all?

vass0922 · February 17th, 2009, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by GroundZero3

When I logged in the day vern posted this I was welcomed to the new TOS agreement. You weren't at all?

I dont think so?

dont recall

ShyguyXPC · February 17th, 2009, 06:00 AM

nope... I'm usually set to login automatically, so it goes straight to my page.

though sometimes its reset for whatever reasons & I have to type in my login, but even with that said, twice in the last 2 weeks I've had to do that & no welcome and new TOS changes/notice.

Sprite · February 17th, 2009, 09:19 AM

A little off-topic maybe...

I was very surprised while browsing around my Google account, when i discovered that i can see what i searched for 3 years ago.

They keep every query! 0_O

Anyways, a good practise is do not write or upload to internet anything you don't want to turn public...