If you keep data on your local machine and facebook comes and takes it from you, that's a problem. But if you voluntarily send it to them, then they're going to do whatever they want with it. How else would you expect it to work?
> I would say that it ceased to be "your" data once you
> typed it into facebook. Common sense should say that
> anything you send to a remote server is no longer under
> your control. I don't understand what the other side
> of this issue is.
Now, one should probably act as if handing their data to one person was like handing it to the world, but there are obviously limits. If I purchase hosting from a company and host my data 'myself,' does my data now belong to the hosting company?
> If you keep data on your local machine and facebook comes
> and takes it from you, that's a problem. But if you
> voluntarily send it to them, then they're going to do
> whatever they want with it. How else would you expect it
> to work?
All we're asking is for symmetry. If I send them data, they can do whatever they want with it inside the law, their ToS and privacy policy. If they send me data (even the data I previously sent them), I can do whatever I want with it inside the law.