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Facebook opens up with 'bill of rights'
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... In future, the site has announced, proposals to change its terms of service will be circulated to users in order to get feedback. Some may go to a public vote, while it also said that its legal contract with Facebook addicts will be simplified into a "bill of rights and responsibilities". ...

Facebook’s Radical New Approach to Terms of Service
Technologizer — ... of why the amendments shouldn’t bother anyone. That was expedient. Today, the company followed up by doing something kind of extraordinary: It’s created drafts of overarching Facebook Principles and specific Facebook Rights and Responsibilities, and is soliciting member feedback on them before they’re finalized. Zuckerberg also says that members will get to vote for or against the revised versions of both documents, although I can’t tell from his post whether those votes will be binding. ...

Facebook seeks users' input after privacy flap
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — Facebook seeks users' input after privacy flap Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today posted Facebook's first stab at new policies how it handles members' information. The company caused an uproar earlier this month after it changed its Terms of Service without telling members and was taken to task for it on the ...

Facebook adopts new principles, asks for user feedback
Download Squad — ... After a move to draconian terms of service that included taking ownership of practically all user content, Facebook caught such a big backlash from users that it had to roll back to the old terms. Now Mark Zuckerberg has posted on the Facebook blog with some ...

The day that Web 2.0 swallowed the sugar cubes
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... Look I can understand them needing to come clean on some of the things they have tried to do with their terms of service err … Statement of Rights and Responsibilities as they are calling it now but come on isn’t this suppose to be a business, aren’t businesses suppose to tell the users how they want the service used? ...

Linkpost | 2.27.2009
TechBlog — ... - Some restrictions in music licenses are ridiculous. Cory Doctorow suggests they need only say, "Don't violate copyright law." • Governing the Facebook Service in an Open and Transparent Way and ...

Rewriting Facebook's Terms of Service
Today @ PCWorld — ... by advocates and seen as a revolutionary move toward democratic social networking, Facebook's new campaign is making its way on the Internet. But what are the new TOS all about? Facebook created virtual Town Halls where users can comment and vote for 30 days (closing March 29) on the proposed draft Terms of Service. Two groups have been created: the ...

Facebook: still trying to snow users
p2pnet news — ... In pure, unadulterated PR-babble, “Last week, we returned to our previous Terms of Use as we worked on a new set of governing documents that would more clearly explain the relationship between Facebook and its users,” says chief advertising exec Mark Zuckerman, failing to point out he had zero choice in the matter. ...

Facebook gives you nobody to blame but yourself for possible new policies
Gadgetell — ... none of your business One big thing, however, is that Facebook will not ask for any user input when it comes to implementing new features.  This includes such things as the News Feed and new interface that drew a lot of ire from a lot of vocal users.  Facebook seems to recognize that given the choice, most vocal user prefer to stick with the old ways, even if the new stuff is cleaner, more useful and overall better once the initial shock is over with. Read [Facebook Blog] Full Story » | Written by Shawn ...

Facebook Doesn't Get it: Users Want Control, Not Voting Privileges
Wired: Epicenter — ... As part of its drive to seem more transparent, Facebook has announced that it will allow users to comment and vote on a new terms of service agreement. The move is designed to head off a rather vitriolic reaction to the site’s early attempt to revise its terms of service. ...

Open Letter to Mark ‘Facebook’ Zuckerberg
p2pnet news — ... “Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more open and transparent,” you say in the introduction to your latest piece of unfiltered bull-shit. ...

Facebook is Not Having a Good Month
ReadWriteWeb — ... Although we're excited about the prospect of increased openness at Facebook, and impressed by the speed with which Mark Zuckerberg promised to bring democracy to Facebook after last week's user revolt, we can only hope that the giant Facebook gives some serious attention to the way it accepts third party apps - and soon. Having a bad month is one thing; having a bad year is quite another. ...

Rewriting Facebook’s terms of service
Macworld — ... by advocates and seen as a revolutionary move toward democratic social networking, Facebook’s new campaign is making its way on the Internet. But what are the new TOS all about? Facebook created virtual Town Halls where users can comment and vote for 30 days (closing March 29) on the proposed draft Terms of Service. Two groups have been created: the ...

Facebook's Site Governance Vote: A Massive Con?
ReadWriteWeb — ... When Facebook announced it was opening its site governance to user voting late February, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hailed it as an "unprecedented" effort to enable "participation on the Web." Here at ReadWriteWeb, we ...

Facebook governance vote is a homework assignment no one did
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... in on the question of whether the site's lengthy new policy documents were better than the lengthy old ones. About 75% of that 0.32% chose the newer policy, while the rest chose the old. But the election won't count anyway: Facebook said that for the results to be valid, 30% of its roughly 200 million users would have to weigh in. That's about 100 times more than the 0.32% of people who actually did. Why did Facebook so grossly overestimate interest in its experiment with online government? Start with the subject of the vote itself: New terms ...

Making A Federal Case out of Facebook’s Customer Relations
Technology Liberation Front — ... consumer protection case out of what should be a a customer relations issue between Facebook and its users. Facebook’s users are quick and vocal about Facebook’s privacy practices. And Facebook has been quick to respond. The Facebook blog on privacy highlights all its recent undertakings to respond to privacy concerns, including the Facebook Site Governance page, the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, an open letter and other blog posts from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. There’s even ...