This article explores how every social media site claims that "Your privacy is important to us."
There is an ongoing discussion of whether the terms and conditions are there to confuse users or there to help and protect them.
There is a suggestion that users are provided with an illusion of control total over their privacy. However we know that this is not the case, and the major institutions are the ones who have the ultimate control. For example it was said that Facebook mislead their users into thinking they would keep all information on Facebook as private, yet repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public.
It is more evident that Facebook is pushing users to share more and more information about themselves, which defies the purpose of its privacy policy. This article brings to light the facts that Facebook isn't selling the website to users but selling users to advertise.
Audiences do not realise that social media privacy regulations are overstepping the mark, for example the new terms of service for instagram gives them the right to do whatever they want with users pictures.
Statistics show that a significant number or users don't actually understand or even read the terms and conditions to a lot of sisal media sites. This makes us question if this is done on purpose, so audiences are more likely to continue using the site with no doubts or worries.
No comments:
Post a Comment