The recurring Facebook privacy hoax

Since the beginning of the year, there has been a resurgence of political display of copyright / privacy on Facebook. They are based on a hoax two years. Why did they come back, asks Gareth Rubin.

"In response to new policies Facebook I declare that my copyright on all my personal data, graphics, cartoons, pictures, photos and professional videos, etc. attached (following the Bern Convention ). "

Or a variation - - Have you seen this status recently posted to your Facebook profile friends? If this is a hoax that was the round has decreased since 2012 and will not die, no matter how many times it is exposed.

The report shows that Facebook is planning to package and sell photos and videos of users. In response, thousands of members of the social media giant has reclassified the state above or a variant. But it is absurd. Facebook is not the content of the user's owner of the copyright has the exclusive right to distribute - which is the whole point of the site.

And there's nothing like the Berne Convention - there is a Berne Convention and protects the copyright. Some of the posts instead of mentioning the Rome Convention.

Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes, said that in the original conditions, the company has the right to share content and distribute it. But if you want, you can change this in your privacy settings. "We wanted to take a moment to remember the facts -. If you post things like photos on Facebook, we do not have "

"You must take no notice of these bodies, nothing to do," says Marie Brewis, editor of PC Advisor. "It does not matter what you put in your profile, you have already signed up for Facebook and conditions if Facebook would change its terms, it would be to tell people. "

But people continue to take notice. "It's one of the things on social media - people see his friends talking about something and think it must be true," said Brewis. "And everyone wants one who is in the know and share something before everyone.

"People think that Facebook and Google suck all their personal information, so that people who got nothing to hide and were quite worried. These conditions can be very difficult to get your head around. Most people do not read the terms in particular, if they can not do anything in it, we select "OK", said simply. "

You can not retroactively authorized you get facebook if you cancel an account. The only way to prevent the company to share and distribute your content to deactivate your account completely.

Dr. Maria Michalis University of Westminster Centre for Media Social Research, said: "It's one of the things on social media - if you see a friend has anything to go tend to believe that he writes So Stories viral and they can not be stopped .. that's why we continue to see this hoax for years. "

In response to the Proposals, many people on Twitter and Facebook even said that the best thing about this announcement is that it told them who their friends gullible enough to fall for a hoax, is old year .

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