Alex Reid

In this simple and soft-voiced flash video, the Canadian Privacy Commissioner addresses exactly what people are signing up for when they use social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace.

From Facebook.com’s terms of use:

“By posting user content to any part of the site, you automatically grant … an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide licence … to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such user content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise. … (yet) Facebook does not assert any ownership over your user content.”