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1st Mar 2008 Facebook and Myspace own you!!
Take care what you divulge on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, says Spiked columnist Rob Killick, they will own all the information you provide and you will have no say in how they might use it. Facebook is being investigated by the UK Information Commissioner?s Office (ICO) after users complained that it was impossible to delete their profile, even after terminating their account. But Facebook's terms and conditions state that the company owns outright all the data users provide: "By posting Member Content... you automatically grant... an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reformat, translate, excerpt and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorise sublicenses of the foregoing"
Read the full article at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/4482/
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