A hoax update from 2012 has gained a second life on Facebook.
Nothing riles up the sheeple quite like groundless fear-mongering.
A status update is going viral on Facebook — again. Snopes traced it back to November 2012, and, after scrolling through recent updates, it's back! The message warns users that Facebook is going to make everything you've posted public — even deleted messages and private photos — if you don't copy and paste the message on your own wall.
Here is the update people areposting:
Deadline tomorrow !!!
Everything you've ever posted becomes public from tomorrow. Even messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry. Channel 13 News talked about the change in Facebook's privacy policy.
I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future.
With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute).
NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. Copy and paste to be on the safe side.
It's not true.
"You may have seen a post telling you to copy and paste a notice to retain control over things you share on Facebook," Facebook said on Wednesday in response to the hoax, the Telegraphreported. "Don't believe it. You own your content and can control how it is shared through your privacy settings."
While Facebook may be using your location data to recommend friends and listening to you through your phone (but it's not for ads, it swears!), it is not going to open the floodgates to all of your private and deleted information.
Also, your violation of privacy is likely not punishable by law by the aforementioned UCC Section 1-308, "which has long been popular among conspiracy buffs who incorrectly maintain that citing it above your signature on an instrument will confer upon you the ability to invoke extraordinary legal rights," Snopes reported. And your violation of privacy is probably not punishable by law by the Rome Statute, "global laws from the International Criminal Court covering war crimes and genocide," according to the Telegraph.
In short, for the love of God, don't copy and paste.
Source: www.businessinsider.com
Source: www.businessinsider.com
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