Privacy And The People

By Guy Bunker | February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment 

Guy Bunker

So people complained… and the rules were changed. This is all about FaceBook and their change of rules as to who owned the uploaded content – and the change back again to enable people to delete things they have changed their minds about. While this appears to be the answer to our privacy and copyright fears, people should realise that once their information is on the web – it will, most probably, be out there forever… whether they like it or not.

I applaud FaceBook’s openness on their policy but let’s not forget the various search engines that crawl the various sites and then cache the content (even after it’s gone from the original site), or the fact that it is so simple to copy an image and repost it elsewhere.

So, if there are things you would prefer not to put into the public domain – don’t post them on the Internet… not even for a minute… because someone or something will have taken a copy and who knows what will happen to it then – one thing is for sure, it won’t be forgotten or deleted.

(If you haven’t already visited the Internet Archive, then you should… it’s interesting to look back – and also shows what is kept!)

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