NET 303 – Policy Primer
Nov 12, 2014
NET 303 – Policy Primer
By using Facebook, you agree to the Statement
of Rights and Responsibilities that is updated from time to
time.
You grant Facebook a
non-exclusive, transferable,
sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide
license to use any IP content that you post.
Once your pictures or videos are out there
on Facebook,
it is difficult to
have control of
them
All videos, pictures and other information
disclosed on Facebook becomes its property.
Facebook can use your content in any way it sees
for profit.
When you delete content, it remains in backup copies for a reasonable period of
time.
An application you join, can access
your content and information and
what others have shared with you
Facebook receives data when you look at another person’s timeline, send or receive a message, search
for a friend or a page.
has 14,000 word terms of service and data use police …
Few people really read the “terms and agreement” of the sign-up
page nor the Facebook’s privacy policy.
Facebook users are concerned with privacy.
They either:
1. Leave the site
2. Configure their privacy setting that are complicated to understand
Changes in the layout
and privacy settings are not always easy and fast to understand.
Users have to choose among a lot of
different settings and options to
modify Facebook’s default settings.
Although Facebook has developed
options to control their information,
few users have the technical ability to manage well their privacy settings.
Facebook Privacy Policy in 2005:
“No personal information that you submit to the
Facebook will be available to any users of the Web Site who
does not belong to at least one of the groups
specified by you in your privacy settings.”
Current Facebook Privacy Policy:
“When you connect with an application or
website it will have access to General
Information about you. The term General
Information includes your and your friends names, profile picture,
gender, …”
According to Facebook, users personal information…
In 2005
In 2006
In 2007
In 2009
… belonged to specified groups
… belonged to user’s schools , local area and other “reasonable” community.
… belonged to friends of friends
… belonged to “everyone”
Facebook has begun to delete personal privacy at an accelerated pace
Facebook users do not know
where their private and
public spheres
should be drawn.
Protection of personal privacy is
fundamental to an
individual’s autonomy and
to control what is
disclosed to others.
“A man without privacy is a man without dignity; the fear that Big Brother is
watching and listening threatens the freedom of the individual no less than the
prison bars.”
Zelman Cowen
Economy is dependant of the
free flow of information on
social networking sites that affects personal privacy.
Facebook tracks its
users’ activities and
develop profiles of
consumers.
Facebook users are concerned about the loss
of their anonymity
and about the sale of their
information to third parties for multiple purposes.
Surveillance has become the social norm of this century and it is a form of social control.
Facebook provides online visible interaction available among many people.
“Control of information and communication has been a major source of power throughout history. The advent of the Internet and of
wireless communication allows the development of many-to-many and one-to-one
horizontal communication channels that bypass political or business control of communication.”
Manuel Castells
Facebook has gained bad press:
1. Users are easily being tracked
2. Users’ information is shared without any
consent.
Facebook privacy problems:
1. Users disclose too much
2. Personal Privacy is not well protected
3. Third parties are looking to take profit of users’ information
For example, Facebook users’ may not be aware that Facebook default settings for
photo albums is “global”
Why Personal Privacy is not well protected?
Personal information is exposed to strangers on
Your Facebook “friends” own your personal content and can give it to a whole
range of other people.
The amount of users’ disclosed
information on Facebook is highly
valuable for companies for
marketing issues.
We are free Facebook labourers, that profits
from us.
The old adage “Knowledge is power” speaks
about the power Facebook has
gained recollecting information about over 2 billion users.
Knowledge is key to the exercise of
power
“The world is embracing new standards of conduct, enforced not only by surveillance
and coertion but by willful disclosure: regulation by revelation.”
Ann Florini
Transparency as a public good might become a public
bad that infringes on personal
privacy.
Despite the disadvantages of having a Facebook account,
deleting a Facebook account may also be a disadvantage for our
social and professional matters.
The use of Facebook is very useful for freedom of expression especially in countries that use some
form of oppression for dissidents.
Facebook represents a public space, where the
power is exercised
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