Facebook recently announced a few changes to its terms of service, which included having access to user’s uploaded content of information even after the user had deleted the account. That spurred controversy among users and privacy advocates, who warned Facebook was taking too many rights here.

 

Soon after that, Facebook reconsidered the changes and went back to the old terms of service until all privacy concerns are being resolved. Furthermore, the social networking site said it will take into account user feedback upon releasing a new policy.

 

This announcement came just as the Electronic Privacy Information Center was preparing to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission regarding these changes. The complaint enjoyed the wide support of consumer and privacy organizations, according to EPIC.

 

The Consumerist, who reported the changes, resumed what they seemed to portray the changes in a few simple words (Facebook also admitted the terms have not been explained to everyone’s understanding, and that would change in the future): We can do anything we want with your content. Forever.

 

 Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg answered in a blog post to all the aggravation, saying the next version of their Terms of service will be a substantial revision, and will reflect users’ right to control and share their information, in much clearer terms of course.