Comments on: Why I deleted my Facebook data. Commentary on Internet data privacy rules.

By: Facebook - Push To Open - Harshad Oak’s Blog On India, Pune, Society, Religion, Politics, Life, Technology…

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:16:00 +0000

[...] recent controversy about Facebook changing its terms of use and trying to own user data, kind of supported the closed and proprietary feel that I got [...]

By: Data Sans Frontiers : Data on the cloud : Facebook and its new statements | /var/log/mind

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:50:19 +0000

[...] account and had written at length about what I perceived were the issues with the modified TOS : Why I deleted my Facebook data. Commentary on Internet data privacy rules. A couple of days after that Facebook under pressure from all the adverse feedback, reverted to its [...]

By: /home/dhananjay | Why I deleted my Facebook data. Commentary on Internet data privacy rules.

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:19:57 +0000

[...] post is cross posted from my software development blog : /var/log/mind and appeared there on Feb 16, 2009. It is one of two posts I decided to cross post onto this blog as [...]

By: dude

dude — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:43:29 +0000

> the fact that Facebook change their TOS back so quickly is an indication that they knew they were wrong in the first place

No, it’s an indication they didn’t expect everyone to get their balls in a knot and decided to just revert it since they never planned on any sort of shady behavior in the first place.

We all need to just fucken chill about the ‘privacy’ of our status updates and shit, I mean, who really gives a rats ass? You, apparently. Me, I’ve got more important things on my mind.

By: coffee

coffee — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:52:32 +0000

the fact that Facebook change their TOS back so quickly is an indication that they knew they were wrong in the first place

By: Did You Delete Your Facebook Account?

Did You Delete Your Facebook Account? — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:32:45 +0000

[...] Dhananjay , a Software Architect explains: Why I deleted my Facebook data. Commentary on Internet data privacy rules. [...]

By: Dhananjay Nene

Dhananjay Nene — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:02:21 +0000

@yoda Control and ownership are two different aspects. I understand the data lies in control of the site which has that data. What I am uncomfortable is that for all practical purposes facebook gets an irrevocable license to do what it may please with that data including sublicensing it.

Sharing a piece of originally authored or privately shared content or pictures is different than transferring its near ownership to the site which hosts it. Facebook is blurring that difference under its new TOS.

By: yoda

yoda — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:36:00 +0000

Once you post anything to a public website, you lose control of it…Once you email a picture to another person you also lose control of it.

why should this surprise anybody?

Use your head!

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:46:10 +0000

There may be a filing of class-action lawsuit against Facebook. Our own photos, artworks or any content uploaded to users’ Facebook accounts does NOT belong to Facebook forever nor any image/content in users’ accounts be used to promote Facebook without users’ expressed permission.

By: I’m Done With Facebook : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

I’m Done With Facebook : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:01:55 +0000

[...] 2: The Photo Attorney thinks the new Terms of Service are bunk. And Dhananjay Nene explains why he deleted his data. MediaVidea conjures up some sordid possibilities for what Facebook will do under the new [...]