05-13-2012, 04:12 PM
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Facebook to Let Users Vote On Its Privacy Policies
Very interesting news.
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Facebook shareholders may be grumbling about the inordinate amount of control founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds under the company’s relatively unique corporate structure, but new privacy-policy explanations the company announced on Friday - and will explain in a conference call Monday - return some privacy control back to users.
How Many Users Does It Take to Change a Policy?
"If we receive more than 7,000 comments concerning a particular change, we will put the change up for a vote. The vote will be binding on us if more than 30% of all active registered users as of the date of the notice vote,” the company’s updated terms of use read.
“This one is a fresh one,” said Kapil Raina, director of Product Marketing at Zscaler. “Given that most of the Facebook stock is under a dual class control, it is refreshing that at least privacy is not. Then again,” Raina added, “note the emphasis on ‘active’ – which is defined by what?”
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Continued at: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives...y-policies.php
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