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posted by mrpg on Friday March 30 2018, @02:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the are-we-done-yet? dept.

Ever change your mind while composing a video to post on Facebook? If you used Facebook's tools, they kept it anyway.

Earlier this week, like many people around the world, my sister Bailey downloaded her Facebook data archives. Along with the contact lists and relationship statuses was something unexpected: several different videos of her attempting to play a scale on a wooden flute in her childhood bedroom. Each video, she discovered, was a different "take" — recorded on Facebook, but then, she assumed, discarded before she posted the final version to a friend's wall.

[...] Facebook's current data policy says that the company can "collect the content and other information you provide when you use our Services, including when you sign up for an account, create or share, and message or communicate with others." "Create" is the operative word in there. By that logic, Facebook technically could save any video a user filmed but did not publish because you created it on the platform.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @11:51PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @11:51PM (#660619)

    There have been countless articles about Facebook and privacy over the years so it's not like people didn't know it was evil, they just chose to downplay or ignore it for convenience. I have no sympathy for them. Many are the same people who were shocked -- SHOCKED! -- when the Snowden story broke but then quietly stuck their heads back into the digital sand upon realizing that any meaningful change required action. This isn't that different. It's a world decided by idiots and we're all on the train ride with them.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @09:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @09:16AM (#660785)

    I just wish we had the manpower to enact it.

    I'd lose about 98 percent of my family, but sacrifices need to be made for the future of the human race!