“Facebook’s insistence that it will ‘not be using this data for enforcement actions’ puts the company and users in a difficult position,” says law professor Woodrow Hartzog. “If Facebook is openly admitting that it is not going to enforce its own policies when it knows these policies have been violated, how should users gauge the importance of these terms? Alternatively, if Facebook does plan to enforce its ‘real names’ policy, is it really going to be willfully ignorant of this pile of data that could help Facebook pinpoint which users are violating its agreement? Unless Facebook plans on being duplicitous, it has to ignore that data for enforcement purposes now.”
- Date Published:09/24/2012
- Original Publication:Forbes