Thomas OtterBoth of them used social software to rapidly organize protests. Both with 10,000s of participants in a matter of days.
John Prescott, former UK deputy Prime Minister, took on the Bank bonus issue in the UK.
Anne took on the Facebook Terms of Service. She blogged about her reasons for starting the group.
I hadn’t read anything about any changes to the TOS up until then and was surprised to see they were changed weeks ago and without anyone noticing.
I have had an ambivalent relationship with Facebook since I signed up (it’s complicated), and in the years I have been there they haven’t done much to make me trust their service or their judgments, so I felt I had to speak up this time.
After some initial research (reading the old and new TOS for instance) I set up the group on Facebook about an hour later.Personally it wasn’t so much about getting Facebook to change their TOS (at least initially). If you read the old TOS you would have known that they always sucked and probably always will. Ideally they would add the two lines they removed again, edit the wording in some places, explain why they felt they needed to change the Terms of Service and how these changes would affect their users.
The group has well over 100,000 members now, and Facebook has reinstated the old TOS.
Here is Anne on Norwegian TV.
Unlike John Prescott, Anne isn’t a politician. She is actually an enterprise software implementation expert. She focuses on ERP/Abobe integration and form design. I recently spoke with Anne about Adobe Forms and ERP Integration as part of some upcoming research I’m doing.
Well done Anne. This is a fabulous illustration of the power of social software. It also yet another example of Facebook making a blunder on basic legal concepts. (they should be taking my survey)
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Category: Law Social Software privacy Tags: facebook TOS, Prescott., privacy, protest
