Online Privacy & Social Networking.
There has been an out roar over the change of Terms of Use for Facebook users.(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494804,00.html) The change occured early 2009 where Facebook deemed that they now had the rights to use the content that you post on your profile wether active or not, to be able to make a profit. (http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2009/02/16/facebook-now-owns-all-the-content-you-put-onfacebook)
This change sparked controversy of what content you post online on various social websites is what you actually own.
Considering this, you could then claim that Facebook would have to make all users sign a media release as they claim that they have rights to all content that you post including videos, pictures and text. how would this work for users under the age of 18 who need parental consent for their faces to be in the media?
Opposing this are numerous websites which claim what you post on the internet is your property as long as you have the rights to post such content and have not breeched any copyright laws. (http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071008031623AAXCMXD)
I guess in a sense the whole dilemma is based around the fact that in a way Facebook could take their identity away.
CEO and founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg made a statement regarding the TOS debacle saying "Just trust us."(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494804,00.html)
How can we trust anyone when the content that we put on is not ours?
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