June 25, 2009

• Facebook

  I've had my issues with them recently, mainly getting hacked like nobodies business, despite doing everything facebook said to do.  I now have my computer set to wipe all cookies/temp. internet files/ etc.... after every session. I also re-set to a new password every week now. Bit of a pain, since every session is like new and I have to sign in on all sites and all...but worth it I feel. At any rate, many of you probably heard this bit, but I didn't know about it until the newsletter I get from consumer reports. So, just FYI to those of us who didn't know how nutso the facebook guys can be:
  
  "And Facebook? It was a Consumer Reports web site that blew the whistle on this online social network site when it quietly decided to change longstanding privacy policies.

  With virtually no notice to its more than 200 million users, Facebook tried to slip through an astonishingly invasive plan to eliminate virtually all user privacy rights:

  "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 post ..."

  Talk about signing your life away — or that of your child, spouse, or unwitting parent! But after the uproar unleashed by our disclosure, Facebook quickly retracted the outrageous policy."

  I'm glad they retracted it, but keep an eye out gang, if you use them, check now and then to see if they're trying to get all Communist on you.

  ~Kate.

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