2023-11-12 23:39:04
For several days, this is a message that you must have surely seen while scrolling through your Facebook feed. Many users have shared a (more or less) identical publication, with a message which, by the simple fact of being posted, would prohibit the social network from using what is posted there.
“I do not authorize Facebook or any entity associated with Facebook to use my photos, information, messages or posts, past or future,” this message begins. With this statement, I notify Facebook that it is strictly prohibited to disclose, copy, distribute or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. Violation of privacy may be punishable by law. »
A post which can find its source in the new directives that the Meta group (to which Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram belong in particular) has been able to send to its users in recent days: the American giant, complying with the GDPR, is now offering its European users to use the social network with advertising, for free, or to pay if they don’t want it.
No legal value
Except that mass publishing and sharing this publication on your profile has no legal value. It can only irritate your contacts or friends who see these long messages. In matters of law, only the general conditions of use have legal value. These (which you rarely read) specify that you authorize Facebook to “host, use, distribute, modify, perform, copy, publicly perform or publicly display, translate and create derivative works of your content (in accordance with your settings of confidentiality and application)”.
“Every year he comes back!” And every year, we remind you that this type of message has no legal value and in no way guarantees the protection of your data, your creations, your photos published on Facebook,” the CNIL already wrote in 2017 in a message posted on Facebook (since deleted). And the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties insisted at the time: “There is therefore no point in sharing it on your wall (Facebook). »
These messages are also recurring. In the past, there have been attempts to keep Facebook free, to protect its data, to prohibit Facebook from using our data, etc. With the same incentive to copy and paste a message.
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