What Facebooks New Terms and Conditions Will Mean for You Q - Your expertise covers the crazy stuff companies try to hide in their TOS. How does Facebook compare to most of what you see? A - Out of all the TOS I have dealt with in 20 years, Facebooks are the most intrusive. To be granted rights to track an individuals movements, and thus the people that would be with those individuals, and to potentially commercially exploit without permission all pictures posted on Facebook without specific consent, is breath-taking. Users must take responsibility for their data. Facebooks ability to exploit our data is contingent upon our allowing them to do so. It is up to us to value our privacy and to spend a few minutes setting some restrictions on the privacy settings. Q - And tinkering with your privacy settings would help you opt out of these intrusive new TOS? Well, no. You can adjust your settings to change which people can see what you post: Global—which is everyone, the whole internet—Friends of Friends, Just Friends, or you only. Most people will want to set it to Just Friends, but many leave it on Global. However, no matter what settings you use here, these settings only affect the way you share with others. It has no outcome on how Facebook shares your stuff—thats all dictated by the unchangeable TOS that you need to agree to to be allowed use Facebook in the first place. [UPDATE: Facebooks ability to share your information is in fact contingent on your settings. However, if someone else with more liberal privacy settings than you uploads a photo of you or tags you in a post, Facebook will be able to use that information according to the terms the uploader has agreed to.] vice/en_ca/read/i-asked-a-lawyer-how-facebooks-new-terms-will-affect-my-online-life-183
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:50:37 +0000
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