Warning to Swedish Facebook users

Published: 25th October 2007 08:50 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/8895/20071025/

A Swedish government IT advisor has warned the country's estimated 400,000 Facebook users that the networking website's terms and conditions amount to a "slave contract."

Pär Ström, a member of the government's IT Council and integrity spokesman at think tank Den Nya Välfärden, says the 13-page contract users agree to when joining Facebook gives the US company rights over their personal information and photographs.

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