Lots of churn on the interwebs about Facebook's new Terms of Service (TOS). The new user agreement asserts an irrevocable, non-exclusive license for any content users add to the service.The key change is that there used to be a clause about the user's right to remove content, and that's been removed.
It's probably not as sinister as many bloggers infer. Because of Facebook Connect, content is being stored outside Facebook's span of control. This new language absolves the service of liability if a user's content is misused elsewhere. It's increasingly common on other social networking and search sites, including Google.
As ever, the prime directive of the net -- never post anything (including in email) that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the New York Times tomorrow -- applies. Discretion isn't just the better part of valor, it's a requirement in the neworked economy.
2 comments:
Love your use of Apture to talk about the VC & Technology industries. Nice use of Wikipedia, videos, PDF links and web clips. Hope you're enjoying it!
TestBlog--
We are indeed enjoying it. Great tool; we blogged about it last August, after seeing it at Start. We really like the iPaper feature for PDF docs, especially the memory function that remembers where we stopped reading (or at least paging). Great stuff.
--GCN
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