Social Networking Web Site Facebook Reverts Back to Old User Policies
Written by: Karen Benardello
After an inpouring of online protests, Facebook, the social networking website, has decided to inactivate its new user policies while it figures out how to best resolve recent questions raised by users, such as who controls posted information.
The site, which has 175 million users around the world, had discretly changed its terms of use, which is its governing document, a couple of weeks ago. The terms included that users' photos would remain posted, even after they deleted them. The changes had sparked an uproar after a popular consumer rights advocacy blog pointed them out in a post.
Facebook is trying to retain its users, which includes tens of thousands of protesters, by reassuring them that it's reverting to its previous terms-of-use policies while it resolves the raised issues. Mark Zuckerberg, the site's founder and chief executive, spelled out in plain English, instead of legal terms, that it "doesn't claim rights to any of your photos or other content. We need a license in order to help you share information with your friends, but we don't claim to own your information."
As a result of the users' protests, the site also created a group designed to let users give input on its terms of use.
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