"... you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License)"
I would expect the implications of that provision to be inscrutable to someone who doesn't have at least some familiarity with IP law. Techies tend to have that background, because software licensing is such a big factor in open source software. But I would bet that if you go out and survey people off the street about what that's saying, very few would anticipate that it means, "We can sell your data to anyone we want, including exporting it to places where your local privacy laws may not apply, and they get to do whatever they want with it, including selling it to still other people." Especially in light of the (misleading, if you're interpreting it in terms of vernacular English instead of legalese) statement that, "You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook," that opens the section.
Expecting most people I know to reliably all of the relevant implications for their privacy out of that saucer full of tea leaves is, to put it bluntly, bullshit.
"... you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License)"
I would expect the implications of that provision to be inscrutable to someone who doesn't have at least some familiarity with IP law. Techies tend to have that background, because software licensing is such a big factor in open source software. But I would bet that if you go out and survey people off the street about what that's saying, very few would anticipate that it means, "We can sell your data to anyone we want, including exporting it to places where your local privacy laws may not apply, and they get to do whatever they want with it, including selling it to still other people." Especially in light of the (misleading, if you're interpreting it in terms of vernacular English instead of legalese) statement that, "You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook," that opens the section.
Expecting most people I know to reliably all of the relevant implications for their privacy out of that saucer full of tea leaves is, to put it bluntly, bullshit.