Facebook warns users of hoax messages on privacy

September 29, 2015 19:23

Facebook is warning people not to fall prey to the recent hoax messages making rounds on the world's largest social network website which ask users to post a legal notice to retain copyright of their pictures and sign up for a paid monthly subscription.

Users of Facebook were inundated with messages on their news feeds reposted by friends that warn if they don't act fast, Facebook will be allowed to infringe on their privacy.

These hoaxes play on real concerns that consumers have about how their personal information geeting used by Internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Netflix, among others, who have in the past been accused of violating their users' privacy, CNET reported.

One of the hoaxes, which resurfaces every couple of years, warns users to post what sounds like a legally binding statement to their feeds that prohibits Facebook from using their photos, content or personal information without users' permission, the report said.

The hoax promises to exempt those who repost the legal-sounding statement from Facebook's Data Use Policy, a document that governs how Facebook may use its members' data that they agree to when they sign up to use the service. However, of course, once approved, the contract cannot be altered by users.

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