Sunday, March 29, 2009

Facebook Privacy Row: Insider's Story


After lot of hue and cry, Facebook finally backtracked and reverted to old rules but what the insider's feel about it?

In a recent telephonic interview with The Age Facebook's chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly revealed that the "entire story was a beat-up and Facebook never intended to use people's personal information outside of the site".


According to Chris Kelly, the social network did not believe it had done anything wrong. He said, "license is different to ownership ... So the speculation about people's faces showing up on billboards or Facebook owning the photos that they uploaded was just completely false."

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has cleared his stand in the blog saying that the changes in the policy were only made to make the site's policies clear to users.

Concerned about your privacy on Facebook? You can share your thoughts on the GAfter lot of hue and cry, Facebook finally backtracked and reverted to old terms of use but what the insider's feel about it?

In a recent telephonic interview with The Age Facebook's chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly revealed that the "entire story was a beat-up and Facebook never intended to use people's personal information outside of the site".


According to Chris Kelly, the social network did not believe it had done anything wrong. He said, "license is different to ownership ... So the speculation about people's faces showing up on billboards or Facebook owning the photos that they uploaded was just completely false."

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has cleared his stand in the blog saying that the changes in the policy were only made to make the site's policies clear to users.

Concerned about your privacy on Facebook? You can share your thoughts on the Facebook bill of rights and responsibilites group.

But the best way to ensure your personal details, pictures, videos to remain personal use the privacy settings optimally group.