Easier to Say Sorry: the Facebook Story
posted by Danielle Citron
As Dan notes in his post on the Terms of Service flap over at Facebook, the company has a tendency to introduce privacy-busting features with no prior warning and then recant after user protest becomes too deafening to ignore. NPR interviewed always-interesting guest blogger Bill McGeveran on the issue yesterday and it is worth tuning in here. Bill talks about Facebook’s history of saying sorry after a privacy snafu and possible implications for the future.
February 18, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Posted in: Privacy (Consumer Privacy)
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Dennis - February 18, 2009 at 6:20 pm
This is a good example of how not to manage your company…They need to hire more in-house lawyers to advise them against such stupidity
Frank - February 18, 2009 at 6:44 pm
They’ll eventually reintroduce this, but when there’s more going on in the news cycle, and when more people are “locked in” by investing time in creating profiles and networks on the site.
clarinette - February 19, 2009 at 6:03 am
From the words of M. Zuckerberg himself :
“Our next version will be a substantial revision from where we are now. It will reflect the principles I described yesterday around how people share and control their information, and it will be written clearly in language everyone can understand. Since this will be the governing document that we’ll all live by, Facebook users will have a lot of input in crafting these terms.
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If you’d like to get involved in crafting our new terms, you can start posting your questions, comments and requests in the group we’ve created—Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. I’m looking forward to reading your input.”
It’s now time for users to make themselves heard.
clarinette - February 19, 2009 at 7:20 am
Was this really a predictable ‘earthquake’as Scott Cleland wants to see. Are consumers waking up?
clarinette - February 20, 2009 at 8:33 am
Is this the end of the battle of Facebook?
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/facebook-battle-ends-major-victory-users
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