Facebook is in the process of updating its user agreement documents, in part to clarify its position on employers demanding job applicants' log in details, but has also added a couple of sneaky additions.
Now known as its Statement of Rights and Obligations, Facebook's new user agreement is still being reviewed but includes a clause that it can store and process data on un-registered users who in any way interact with the site.
Book 'em, Lou
Most other changes to the nine-page pdf document are fairly superficial, but there's another pretty outrageous one: it requires that all Facebook users agree that Facebook owns the trademark for the word 'Book'.
We're not averse to referring to Zuckerberg's social network as the 'Book in our fruitier moments, but we're not sure its claim is exactly rock solid – apparently there are these other objects filled with paper adorned with words and pictures that some people call books too.
Just Wikipedia'd these "books"; it looks like they've been around since, like, some time BC – a bit before Zuck's time.
It's possible that Facebook merely means the suffix "-book" - but then we imagine Apple would have a little something to say about that too.