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Facebook changes on data retention spark protests
Published 2/17/2009 at SFGate: Technology
Tens of thousands of Facebook users are protesting new policies that they say grant the social-networking site the ability to control their information forever, even after they cancel their accounts. Facebook's new terms of use, updated Feb. 4, largely went...
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