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On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, reverted the site’s Terms of Service back to the original language after a backlash from the media and from Facebook users.

Hello, I’m Charlotte Bellis, and you’re watching Newsy.com.

We reported Tuesday about the response to Facebook’s Terms of Service Change.

Facebook had said it would forever hold the rights to any user uploaded content - even if a user deleted their account.

Now, after a wave of heated public and media reaction, CEO Mark Zuckerberg retracted the changes.

We’re following responses from Facebook, the BBC, ZD Net and others…  

Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook blog:

“Over the past couple of days, we received a lot of questions and comments about the changes and what they mean for people and their information. Based on this feedback, we have decided to return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.” (Facebook)

The BBC talked to a copyright lawyer who tried to explain why Facebook had made the change in the first place:

“…what Facebook wanted to do was bring it to people’s attention that their copyright license was there in effect in perpetuity.  So whilst people might want to come off Facebook at some stage, take their information down, Facebook would retain their copy of the info.”
“Which may be for example, lots of photographs.” (BBC)

ZD Net, a technology blog, approved of Facebook’s about-face, and made some recommendations for future action:

“Overall, this approach is better. Facebook has to give users a heads up on privacy changes. While we’re pondering a new TOS and privacy changes here’s what needs to happen everywhere:

    * Privacy policies need to be written in English;
    * Privacy policies need a nutrition label of sorts so I know what’s going on at a glance;
    * Users need to realize they have very little privacy rights in the first place;
    * But users should be given a heads up to privacy policy changes and be allowed to opt out in a certain window.”

But another blogger on ZD Net points out that while companies like Apple and Google have control of users’ private information, they rarely seem to take any heat for it:

“[Google and Apple] seem oblivious to the criticism that comes their way. The general volume of critique is way below the ear splitting decibels washing over the interwebs about Facebook in the last couple of days.” (ZDNet)

So what do you think Facebook should do next? Do you agree with its latest decision?

Have you taken any action, like joining a group in protest or deleting your account?

Please leave us your comments, and be sure to check out our sources.

I’m Charlotte Bellis, for Newsy.com, where multiple perspectives help provide the real story.
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