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  • Published: Feb 16th, 2009
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Facebook: Oh, by the way, your life now belongs to me

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From the new terms of use of Facebook:

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.

Via ALT1040.


Update:
Mark Zuckerberg has clarified the reasons for the new legal terms on sharing content in Facebook:

Our philosophy is that people own their information and control who they share it with. When a person shares information on Facebook, they first need to grant Facebook a license to use that information so that we can show it to the other people they’ve asked us to share it with. Without this license, we couldn’t help people share that information.

Read the full post here:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=54434097130

  • Published: Jul 4th, 2008
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Facebook is presumptuous

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Today, Facebook told me:

Nathan Sifuentes and Adriana Delgado Garza are now friends. You suggested this friendship.

Actually, I think it was Nathan who sugested my friendship with Adriana (or was Azael?), back in the 90′s.

  • Published: Jun 26th, 2008
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Phishing to Facebook users

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Wikipedia states:

In computing, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication (read the full article).

ESET Latinoamérica has reported fake invitations to Facebook; when you click on the links in the invitation mail, you get a page that looks identically to the Facebook website, but is coming from another source, and expects to get your credentials to gain access to your Facebook account and profile. This would compromise the personal and private information stored in the profile of the user being attacked.

We are used to know about these phishing attempts with banking websites, eBay, Paypal, etc. but I think this is the first report of a phishing massive attack to social network users.

The solution to avoid this attacks is to keep eyes wide open: Always look at the address bar of your browser, and identify if the shown URL really corresponds to the website you are supposedly visiting. Also you could use web browsers with anti-phishing methods, like Firefox 3.

  • Published: Mar 7th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

(anti) Facebook anthem

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Almost my feeling. Almost.

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