Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has bent to users’ demands. He will not be implementing any new terms of service that, in essence, say Facebook owns any shared content put on the site.
After widespread Internet outrage, Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook blog, “Over the past couple of days, we received a lot of questions and comments about the changes and what they mean for people and their information. Based on this feedback, we have decided to return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.”
But do not get too comfortable, Zuckerberg stressed in his blog that the terms of service will change again soon.
Facebook posted a new group called Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities in an effort to get users’ opinions on the terms of service. More than 60,000 members have joined the group.
Zuckerberg and other administrators refuted the group’s description that Facebook owns and uses members’ information and other content, saying “You own your information. Facebook does not.”
Instead, Zuckerberg said Facebook needs a license “in order to help you share information with your friends.”
“We won’t use the information you share on Facebook for anything you haven’t asked us to,” he said. “We realize our current terms are too broad here and they make it seem like we might share information in ways you don’t want, but this isn’t what we’re doing.”