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Facebook Launches Facebook Bill of Rights, Reverts to Previous Terms of Use

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Feb 18, 2009

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If you read any tech publication this week, you couldn't have helped but encounter the brouhaha over Facebook's revised Terms of Use. Now, Facebook has decide to return to its previous Terms - dated September 23, 2008 -until it can better determine how to proceed. To help ensure they don't make the same mistakes again, they've also started the "Facebook Bill of Rights," a Facebook group formed specifically to allow people "to give input and suggestions on Facebook's Terms of Use."

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While we had seen earlier rumblings of concern over the Facebook Terms of Service as early as February 9, it wasn't until The Consumerist posted "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever" that the deluge of criticism broke free. More than 6,000 diggs and hundreds of blog posts later, and suddenly Facebook was the target of a Federal complaint.

While there remains on ongoing debate about how overbearing the terms actually were in the grand scheme of things, Facebook has decided to revert back to its previous terms, according to a post by Mark Zuckerberg:

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