You may have noticed the following message being shared over the Facebook for past few days. The Pakistani community is mostly sharing this status. Here is the status that you may have noticed on the timeline of your friends:
“I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past, and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute)”
Well, Facebook is not going to pay attention to these kinds of status as it has its own set of rules and the company always follows that. Facebook is a public social media company and whenever a person creates an account he automatically accepts some terms and conditions. You had also accepted those terms and conditions when you signed up and created a Facebook account. Maybe you have not noticed these terms and conditions, but these are about your privacy and data usage.
As it is clearly mentioned in some terms of the Facebook that it can collect user data without any permission and can display behavior based advertisement to the respective user as well.
Here is the statement by Facebook in his Sharing your Content and Information Section:
“For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.”
What’s the Solution?
You at your own can prevent the Facebook from making your post and the status public. The way for is to go to settings and turn everything to only me and your friends and friends of friends will not be able to see your status anymore. But this will bring an end to the meaning of digital social life for you.
