Facebook Users Have Week to Vote on New Privacy Rules
December 4th, 2012
(CNN) — Here’s some news Facebook users may “like.”
Users have just under a week to vote on proposed changes to Facebook’s policy.
The social networking website proposed revisions to its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities on November 21st.
The proposal sparked outrage from privacy groups who sent an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg objecting to the proposal.
Facebook is using a customized voting app to collect the votes and a third party will tally the results.
Voting ends Monday, December 10th at noon.
This article is horrifyingly empty. For those that wish to know the new rules being “voted” on, here’s the shakedown. The new version of the FB Mobile app attaches itself to the firmware of your phone and automatically uploads any picture you take to a brand new photo album on your profile page. The album is said to be defaulted to private, but we all know how that stuff works out in the end.
I can’t wait for someone to take some intimate photos of their lover without knowing this, and then they get banned from FB after his GF’s tittys get reported.
To further promote fear of using FB, here’s this: NSA Whistleblower – Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all info stored, no matter the post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuET0kpHoyM
i dont know how it is for people with computers but i can only use facebook on my phone and this is the first time ive heard of this, so i searched googlle to find out more info and one page offered a couple links to voting pages but i cant find where to vote at all, so at least for mobile users theyre not making this vote easy.. facebook should have sent a message to everyone so people would know
How do we vote?
I received an email from Facebook about it a few weeks ago. Check your mail (and spam box).
https://apps.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance/
The iPhone photo upload thing is opt-in only at this time. It apparently uploads every single photo you take on your phone, so I am not opting in. While I don’t take suggestive photos, many are blurry or off-center, and I don’t want the world seeing the bad ones (I know the photos allegedly go to a private cloud, but I don’t trust that any further than any of the rest of you).
An email from FB I received 11/22/12 had this address for the proposed changes (and which goes to Facebook Site Governance page, if you want to look it up rather than follow a link): https://www.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance