Your Facebook timeline has probably been filled with people copying and pasting a privacy statement in their statuses lately, but the whole thing is a hoax.

It's pretty routine now that every few months someone will demand that Facebook not use their information, and say it with some wordy, useless status update.  Sure it looks and sounds official, but it means absolutely nothing.  This time around the status looked something like this:

As of September 26th , 2015 at 01:16 a.m. Eastern standard time, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. You MUST copy and paste

This does nothing.  This means nothing. 

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The good news is that Facebook posted something to let users know that there was nothing to worry about.

 


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Posted by Facebook on Monday, September 28, 2015

Please realize that Facebook is free, and when you signed up, you basically gave them the right to do whatever they want with your information.  That's how this works.

 

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