If you’re like most people (myself included), when you see a license agreement, you don’t take the time to read it, you blindly click “agree” and move on.
In your defense, Carnegie Mellon researchers determined that it would take the average American 76 work days to read all the privacy policies they agreed to each year.
The linked article picks up some of the more important (and to some, chilling) things embedded in that Facebook license agreement you agreed to. Here’s a link to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, as well as to the Facebook Data Use Policy, in case you want to follow along at home.
If you are going to use Facebook, take a few minutes to read the article. Make sure you know what you are getting into.
The site requires Facebook to comment? Lol.
“If you don’t pay for the service, you’re not the customer. You’re the product being sold.”
This is why, whenever I do a search on google for something, I see ads for it for weeks afterwards. Not an especially effective tactic when, for example, I priced a lens for my camera, found one I liked, bought it. This process took about 40 minutes.
Still for weeks afterwards BH Photo, Amazon and others thought I was in the market for a camera lens…
It seems like the pirates are now highly paid lawyers who want to rob you with a pen.