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Once again Facebook told us they are going to improve the site and give us full/more control over our privacy settings, instead we got more of what wasn’t needed and less of what we actually asked for, not only that but we got robed of a few goodies in the process.

Their idea of increasing our control to privacy meant: (1) All of Facebook can see our Friends List. (2) The Friends of my Friends (who may very well be our enemies) can now add us as a friend. (3) Our Fan pages can be seen by everyone so gone are the days when we could be an undercover stalker. (4) When we remove data (photos, emails, comments etc) from any part of Facebook the data still remains; according to them “removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).” Based on my personal experience that period is well over a year and is still available to applications etc; that is how I discovered this flaw. (5) Every single action we take throughout the entire site is displayed for all our friends to see on the Home page; if we wanted all our friends to know something wouldn’t we post it in our status? (6) Regardless of our photo and video privacy settings, people outside of our friends list can access them; tag tag tag, that’s what happens when you tag. (7) Pending friends can view your updates so all someone has to do to see your updates is to send you a friend request.

There was a time when we could protest by creating a group, clearly those days are over. Now every time they make changes we protest for a while but then we adapt because they ignore us. At face value, Facebook ain’t what it used to be; I now call it Fakebook.

Their Privacy Policy Explained
1 Privacy

Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Privacy Policy to make important disclosures about how you can use Facebook to share with others and how we collect and can use your content and information. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy, and to use it to help make informed decisions.

2 Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:

1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (“IP License”). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).”

Written by Antoinette Forsythe Copyright © All rights Reserved, Image Credit: Facebook Security by smemon87, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.

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