While Facebook quickly reverted to its old ToS and launched the Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities group, the controversy put the company’s policies in the spotlight, with some users going so far as to delete their accounts in protest. Today, Facebook has released what they’re calling “Draft Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities For User Review, Comment and Vote,” the full text of which can be found in Facebook’s press room.
Zuckerberg told the media that these guidelines are the “aspirational goals for Facebook and how we want to craft the service going forward.” He also noted that when they amend the document, they plan to notify Facebook users and offer them a period of time to make comments, and “even put it up for a vote” in situations where there is significant discourse about a change.
Perhaps most significantly, Zuckerberg said that “we do not own user data, users do,” and that the company is sorry for what happened over the past couple weeks.