After a wave of protests from its users, the Facebook social-networking site said Wednesday that it would withdraw changes to its terms of service concerning the data supplied by the tens of millions of people who use it.
The about-face was made known to many users in a message posted on their Facebook homepage saying: ‘‘Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago.
Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.’’ The posting invited users to click on a link to get more details. Terms of service, or use, generally outline appropriate conduct and grant a license to companies to store users’ data. Unknown to many users, the terms often give broad power to Web site operators.
Earlier this month, Facebook deleted a provision from its terms of service that said users could remove their content at any time, at which time the license would expire. It added new language that said Facebook would retain users’ content and licenses after an account was terminated.
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