BUSINESS BRIEFING / INTERNET
Times Wire Reports
Facebook will adopt new rules governing the social network even though the turnout for a vote fell well short of a minimum threshold.
The rules specify that users own their information, not Facebook. An earlier attempt to push changes led to user confusion and protests over who controls the personal information people share on the site.
More than 600,000 of Facebook’s 200 million regular users voted over the last week, with nearly three-quarters in favor of the changes. Facebook had set a minimum threshold of a 30% voter turnout for the vote to be binding. That would have been about 60 million people.
