Facebook wanted to get user data right
I think that few people have any illusions about the availability of data posted on the Web - which is what the famous Radarix is worth . However, until recently, we could at least hope that there was a hypothetical opportunity to hide our online presence and remove traces of our online experience. However, the administration of the social network Facebook decided to deprive us of this legal right with the help of a new clause in the user agreement.
According to the administration of the service, deleting the account does not mean the expiration of the license for the content of the profile. Therefore, the administration of the service can use the content of the user at its discretion. Thus, user data will be stored on the site even after the deletion of accounts.
Although the head of Facebook and said that the administration of the site will not use the content "as you would not want us to do." However, the very idea of such use of content caused serious protests among users.
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More than half of users were unhappy with the change in ToS (Term of Service), as a result of which Facebook returned to the previous edition of these rules.
So, the precedent has appeared. Actually, nothing new on Facebook was invented. For users who are well aware of the principles of the functioning of the Internet, there are no longer any illusions about its anonymity. Believing that through the Network you can spoil another person and go unpunished, only office blondes or beginners can. However, most of us thought, and continue to think, that we have the right to delete our data whenever we want. Yes, we know that you cannot delete from the search engine that there is a Google cache and so on. However, Facebook’s actions are a bad call. If I wanted to be pretentious, then I would write that Facebook took the first shot at the back of democracy and freedom of Web 2.0. But the pathos will not, just once again it is worth thinking about what and how you post on the web. Privacy is a very fragile business ...
According to the administration of the service, deleting the account does not mean the expiration of the license for the content of the profile. Therefore, the administration of the service can use the content of the user at its discretion. Thus, user data will be stored on the site even after the deletion of accounts.
Although the head of Facebook and said that the administration of the site will not use the content "as you would not want us to do." However, the very idea of such use of content caused serious protests among users.
')
More than half of users were unhappy with the change in ToS (Term of Service), as a result of which Facebook returned to the previous edition of these rules.
So, the precedent has appeared. Actually, nothing new on Facebook was invented. For users who are well aware of the principles of the functioning of the Internet, there are no longer any illusions about its anonymity. Believing that through the Network you can spoil another person and go unpunished, only office blondes or beginners can. However, most of us thought, and continue to think, that we have the right to delete our data whenever we want. Yes, we know that you cannot delete from the search engine that there is a Google cache and so on. However, Facebook’s actions are a bad call. If I wanted to be pretentious, then I would write that Facebook took the first shot at the back of democracy and freedom of Web 2.0. But the pathos will not, just once again it is worth thinking about what and how you post on the web. Privacy is a very fragile business ...
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/52300/
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