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Facebook & privacy controversy

Facebook has bowed to the users' verdict by rolling back the changes that it had made to its privacy policy in the wake of severe crticism by Facebook Nine trends for IT in 2009 Technology Watch What's new in IE 8? users and also a federal complaint from a leading privacy advocacy organization. The company has temporarily reverted its terms of service to the previous version. The move came after Facebook polled its users as to whether it should revert to its previous terms. Image Source : Epic.org Recently, Facebook had changed its privacy policy which implied that the networking site would have perpetual rights to users' uploaded content. Initially Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried the calm the opposition by saying that users still owned the content. But the critism later spilled into a barrage of formal complaints and also a threat from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), demanding the social-networking service return to its previous terms. "Many of us