How private is your social life?
Social Network Privacy Policy Exercise
Privacy seems to be something that is disappearing over time. The more that our society connects, especially online, the more we start to realize just how much of ourselves is published and known out there in the world. The three big companies’ privacy policies I am reviewing will be Facebook, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. These three companies seem to collect a cross section of information or create a false sense of security possibly in the information you share.
Snapchat ...As a company snapchat collects basic information when you form your account. They take name, phone, email, and other information like a profile picture. The content through the snaps are encrypted, but it blatantly tells users that what other users view that you send to can be screenshotted or saved and posted elsewhere even though the app itself does not collect this information.
There are three avenues that Snapchat collects from and uses to provide services and better connection to the app from users. These services are information that you the user shares, outside source information and information on how you interact with the app. Metrics are used to pull together times you are using, your friends list, emails, content used such as stickers and filters the service provides, your contact list if you give Snapchat access, your photos and camera usage if given access, your location, and if you agree to cookies and such they will collect the information of items viewed and used for metric analysis.
All of this information download from you helps Snapchat use the information to create a better mor robust product and verifying who you are and that fraud is not happening. Most information is shared within Snapchat service providers and companies such as your name, bitemoji/profile picture, and account name for services rendered. There are times that Snapchat will comply and share information to law and governmental entities for the enforcement of Terms and conditions and the safety through investigation of their snapchatters.
Most information is kept until your request to delete it. However, with legal requests and pending open orders information may be stored indefinitely.
LinkedIn...Linkedin collects data on their users as well, but there are levels of requests for you to comply or deny data collections in Linkedin. Like other apps, online services, and social media venues the company collects basic user registration information. When you build your profile and add locations, and information on work experience and schooling you have shared that information with Linkedin as well as your address book if you import it to find contacts on the site.
Like other social media networks cookies help to collect information on how you use the app that is collected to provided better advertising service, and job location options if you are using the app for educational and job listing needs.
Unlike Snapchat, LinkedIn actually can access informational bits from your messages you send and receive to and from your connection. There is employed as listed in the privacy policy an auto scan function and is used to collect information for site protection policies that are in place.
It is also to be said that if a school, you, or an employer buys premium access your information that is shared in your profile will be shared with others, not just the LinkedIn company. This information is used by potential employers, school offers, and you to solicit work. This is a part of the LinkedIn community to share information of accomplishment and qualification so that information once shared is public in a sense on the social media platform.
Data here on this platform is used for all sorts of connections, analysis, marketing, advertising, soliciting work, and developing a more robust product to help people build their professional profile. What you share with LinkedIn it seems is what is public unless you stipulate otherwise.
Facebook(Now Meta)...Anything and everything you share with Facebook is collected data that can be used by the company in many different ways to improve performance, check fraud, and provide third parties with information if you do not stipulate certain boundaries. Facebook also shares this information across platforms with Instagram and Whatsapp for example to different degrees.
Every habit you have and the devices you use have information collected about your activity with Facebook. This also opens up the door for information partners as listed in Facebook’s privacy policy to collect information on a user’s usage and habits while on the social media giant’s network.
Refining your profile is huge on Facebook. If you have your profile set to a public setting anyone and anyone can access what you share on your profile on or off the network. It is fully searchable and findable. Facebook does have privacy settings. If another user or off Facebook person is not blocked by you, your information on your profile such as name, picture, and any other personal information can be seen by the public.
Third party analytical partners and advertisers work with Facebook and your information is shared in this way to create a better social media environment and provide a better product. Another key thing to remember that information you have on your profile can be shared with legal services if requested. Also, if you delete your account and someone has shared something to their account about you it is not your information therefore it stays online.
In conclusion, looking at these three social media accounts I have found that privacy isn’t really the word I would describe about information shared online.
It is eye opening to read line for line privacy policies that are in place and how these companies use data depending on your settings and your involvement by simply having a profile you are relinquishing a level of privacy. It is always important to remember if you do not want to share certain private aspects of your life probably do not post it online. It is now in the realm of shareable, copyable, and save able by the social media network or your network of friends which the network is not responsible for in the end.
Penn State World Campus assignment COMM 403 Citation list
https://snap.com/en-US/privacy/privacy-policy
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
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