"One of the questions about our new terms of use is whether Facebook can use this information forever. When a person shares something like a message with a friend, two copies of that information are created--one in the person's sent messages box and the other in their friend's inbox. Even if the person deactivates their account, their friend still has a copy of that message. We think this is the right way for Facebook to work, and it is consistent with how other services like email work. One of the reasons we updated our terms was to make this more clear."
So Zuckerberg's claim is that the change in the ToS just reflects the reality that information is stored with you and with your friends when you share information with your friends. Backing up his statement is that the new ToS
still refers to "(i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof SUBJECT ONLY TO YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS" (emphasis added). Maybe this isn't such a big worry after all, although I was alarmed at first by the blog posts announcing this ToS change.
Blogs like sensationalism - it's how they make money. They're not different from any other site.
First there was the whole newsfeed=evil deal, then there was the Facebook CIA thing, now it's the TOS. Anything that'll get a lot of paranoid people riled up.
So Zuckerberg's claim is that the change in the ToS just reflects the reality that information is stored with you and with your friends when you share information with your friends. Backing up his statement is that the new ToS
http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf
still refers to "(i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof SUBJECT ONLY TO YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS" (emphasis added). Maybe this isn't such a big worry after all, although I was alarmed at first by the blog posts announcing this ToS change.