Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Elsie Law's Daily Dose Of The Law: Facebook & Privacy Laws

Facebook, the largest online social network, almost caused a mini-revolt among their users when they attempted to change their terms of service. Some users interpreted the proposed terms as meaning that anything that was uploaded to the site could be used by facebook's owners in whatever manner they do choose into perpetuity.

Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg,denies this interpretation. However, he decided not to implement the new terms when The Electronic Privacy Information Centre threatened to file a lawsuit. The Electronic Privacy Information Centre opined that the proposed service parameters would have given facebook an unfair amount of control over users' content.

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