Facebook wants not to be sued if someone's boss sees something they shouldn't and fires that someone. That's the real reason for this policy. By uploading content to FB you absolve them of responsibility for whom they show it to.
Seriously, you think a million bad cameraphone pictures of people getting drunk are worth $15Bn?
I never said that, or more accurately, the sarcasm about them being a media company didn't come through in my sentence.
There is also the element of trust. What you describe is a sensible thing to protect against, but I have that gut feeling that the new policy is covering a new approach FB may take. Something feels wrong with having this wording of this policy, so I mistrust the intentions behind this new policy until evidence to the contrary emerges. I'm not holding my breath.
