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A normal dude noticed that his privacy settings weren't as tight as he'd like them to be. Just a regular guy. Within the span of a day, BAM! The floodgates opened wide.
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The same chain-letter based hoax that floated around 2012 is back and scaring your family.
You might have noticed a flurry of action on your Facebook feed yesterday as people began copy and pasting what they believed was a legal notice, protecting the privacy of their profile data.
Stuff that looked like this:
As of September 27th , 2015 at 01:16 a.m. Eastern standard time, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with...
Posted by Ines Ligron on Monday, September 28, 2015
Now it's official! It has been published in the media. Facebook has just released the entry price: $5.99 to keep the...
Posted by Stephani Victor on Monday, September 28, 2015
So, that's totally incorrect. Facebook has not threatened to make public the data contained in profiles and no mention has been made to charge for an upgraded privacy setting. Trust us. Their making a killing just doing what their doing.
And even if they were, please do not believe that a status update will serve as a legally binding request to keep a business away from data that users are voluntarily putting on its servers. That's not how things work.
Luckily, not everyone took it seriously.
While there may be water on Mars, don't believe everything you read on the internet today. Facebook is free and it...
The messaging became so widespread that the company itself had to come out and warn users not to believe the hype.
So, there you go. Your stuff won't be made public and status updates aren't binding legal statements.
Have a lovely day.
