Reply to post: Re: Copyright

Facebook's inflection point: Now everyone knows this greedy mass surveillance operation for what it is

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

Re: Copyright

"Why should not all this aggregation of my life be massive copyright violation for commercial gain, a criminal offense?"

1. It'll be buried in the T&Cs that you're granting them a licence if not the actual copyright. It will be explicit.

2. Even it wasn't it's usually a matter of civil rather than criminal law.

3. If it's people you know entering data about you without your permission it could be if you were living in the right jurisdiction.

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