Facebook has sent all its users an email this week about a vote on its proposed changes to Data Use Policy – the site’s term for its privacy policy.<\/p>\n
The dry, quietly worded email is more significant than it sounds.<\/p>\n
Unless 300 million people (a third of Facebook’s users) vote \u2018against’ by Monday 8pm GMT, the networking giant will no longer allow users to vote on policy changes.<\/p>\n
The move has caused concern among privacy groups, who say it’s “impossible” for 300 million to vote in the time period, and that users are worried that their “voices will no longer be heard”.<\/p>\n
So far, the vote stands at less than half a million, but is around six to one against the new Statement of Rights and Data Usage Policy.<\/p>\n
The wording of the vote itself is not a simple ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ \u2013 to vote against, users have to select, \u2018Existing Documents: The current SRR and Data Use Policy,’ as opposed to \u2018Proposed Documents: The proposed SRR and Data Use Policy’<\/p>\n