An old Facebook status hoax is making the rounds again, but despite it being revealed to be a false claim, it has since gained traction in a span of a few days.
The Facebook status hoax has got some users leaving no room for chance, and has spread through the social media platform, The Guardian reported. The false claim stated that everything that the user has ever posted - and even deleted ones - would become public once the deadline comes, which, as it states, include messages, and photos.
The hoax even cites law "UCC 1-308-1 1 1 308-103" along with the Rome Statute as means to "verify" the claim, and continues that Facebook had changed its terms and conditions of service, therefore "allowing" the social media platform to use the users' images, information, messages, or any form of post linked to the account in any way.
The aforementioned law within the status hoax does not have anything to do with the privacy breach in question, even more so, the law is far from being related to such. The Rome Statute is an actual legal framework, which help support the International Criminal Court, but it deals with, but not exclusively, to crimes such as genocide, and violations of human rights, as well as war crimes.
Privacy security, and anything related to copyright infringement is not within its primary concerns. It was revealed that the hoax had actually made its way to the Internet back in 2012, according to Snopes.
The Facebook status claiming to be of your best interests, in terms of keeping private information in the dark, has been regarded as a hoax even back then, but time has allowed it to be forgotten through the years.
As fitting it may seem, it may be necessary to repeat that Facebook does not claim copyright to its users' personal information, nor having any known interest in making private accounts public, Mashable reported.