Facebook: In Addition...

I have had wonderfully mixed reactions to my decision to leave Facebook and let me assure both critics and supporters that I am in no way naive enough to believe or promote the idea that getting off of Facebook erases your cyber fingerprint. I believe I used the phrase “minimizing your cyber fingerprint on a global level”. If erasing my cyber fingerprint were the motive behind my decision, then I would not have started a blog using Google, because Google is the forerunner in the field of data mining. Let’s keep it real folks: the moment we log on to the Internet, we are being tracked and stored by someone, somewhere.

The problem I have with the Facebook Privacy Policy can be found after their “In addition” phrase nestled in the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities section with regard to information ownership. The following is taken directly from their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities: