30 Apr
2009
30 Apr
'09
3 p.m.
More worrysome for me than the data mining practices is that as a dad with three kids that use Facebook, are the intellectual property rights issues that have cropped up over the last few years. Facebook has eased off a bit, but my understanding is that a typical user's content can be commercially expoited in perpetuity by Facebook if they feel like it. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook in the "Terms of Use" controversy section. -- Mike