Monday, November 2, 2009

facebook and loss of privacy

If you don't want to see it on the front page of the paper, don't put it on the internet....this includes e-mail. "While social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace effectively own the data we post on their sites, internet companies like Google and Yahoo keep records of what we look for on their search engines."
Here is what you agree to with Facebook, "‘By posting Member Content to any part of the website, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reformat, translate, excerpt and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorise sublicenses of the foregoing…’

Read full text at: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4482/

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