{"id":114,"date":"2009-02-18T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T16:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-02-18T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T16:58:41","slug":"facebook-withdraws-changes-in-data-use-nytimescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/facebook-withdraws-changes-in-data-use-nytimescom\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook listens to us at least."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5150175\/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">bit of fuss<\/a> this last week over Facebook&#8217;s new TOS.\u00a0 They had changed it to pretty much mean that even if you delete your account, they still own the data.\u00a0 The People got outraged! And rightfully so.\u00a0 Some folks were even interpretting the new TOS to mean that merely linking to content on an external site gave Facebook permission to use it.\u00a0 I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=582117967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook account<\/a>, and was counting my lucky stars that I had never linked up <a href=\"http:\/\/katsskraps.yuriar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">any of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/aprendemos.yuriar.com\/blog\">my<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blogs<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thekytikat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flickr<\/a> account.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I woke up to this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a Facebook posting on Wednesday, Mr. Zuckerberg said: \u201cA couple of weeks ago, we revised our terms of use hoping to clarify some parts for our users. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/19\/technology\/internet\/19facebook.html?ref=technology\">Facebook Withdraws Changes in Data Use &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Facebook has reinstated their old TOS in the face of massive opposition to the new one. Yea Interwebz!\u00a0 Power of the people does work!\u00a0 Now if only we could get Prez ObeyMe, Queen Rat Pelosi &amp; the rest government to listen to us\u2026\u00a0 *shaking head*\u00a0 oh well..<\/p>\n<p>The facebook thing is good news though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a bit of fuss this last week over Facebook&#8217;s new TOS.\u00a0 They had changed it to pretty much mean that even if you delete your account, they still &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[204,243,483],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power-to-the-people","tag-facebook","tag-government","tag-tos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}