1. NET 303 – Policy Primer

2. By using Facebook, you
agree to the Statement of
Rights and
Responsibilities that is
updated from time to
time.

3. You grant
Facebook a
non-exclusive,
transferable,
sub-licensable,
royalty-free,
worldwide
license to use
any IP content
that you post.

4. Once your
pictures or
videos are
out there
on
Facebook,
it is
difficult to
have
control of
them

5. All videos, pictures and
other information
disclosed on Facebook
becomes its property.

6. Facebook can use your
content in any way it sees
for profit.

7. When you delete content, it
remains in backup copies
for a reasonable period of
time.

8. An application you
join, can access
your content and
information and
what others have
shared with you

9. Facebook receives data when you
look at another person’s timeline,
send or receive a message, search
for a friend or a page.

10. Facebook has 14,000 word terms of
service and data use police …

11. Few people really read the “terms
and agreement” of the sign-up
page nor the Facebook’s privacy
policy.

12. Facebook users
are concerned
with privacy.
They either:
1.
Leave the site
2.
Configure
their privacy
setting that
are
complicated to
understand

13. Changes in the layout
and privacy settings are
not always easy and fast
to understand.

14. Users have to choose
among a lot of
different settings
and options to
modify Facebook’s
default settings.

15. Although Facebook
has developed
options to control
their information,
few users have the
technical ability to
manage well their
privacy settings.

16. Facebook Privacy
Policy in 2005:
Current Facebook
Privacy Policy:
“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.”
“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, …”

17. According to Facebook, users
personal information…
In
2005
… belonged to specified groups
In
2006
… belonged to user’s schools , local area and
other “reasonable” community.
In
2007
… belonged to friends of friends
In
2009
… belonged to “everyone”

18. Facebook has begun to delete personal
privacy at an accelerated pace

19. Facebook
users do
not know
where their
private and
public
spheres
should be
drawn.

20. Protection of
personal
privacy is
fundamental
to an
individual’s
autonomy and
to control
what is
disclosed to
others.

21. “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

22. Economy is
dependant of the
free flow of
information on
social networking
sites that affects
personal privacy.

23. Facebook
tracks its
users’
activities and
develop
profiles of
consumers.

24. Facebook users
are concerned
about the loss
of their
anonymity
and about the
sale of their
information to
third parties
for multiple
purposes.

25. Surveillance has become the social norm of this
century and it is a form of social control.

26. Facebook provides online visible interaction
available among many people.

27. “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

28. Facebook has gained bad
press:
1.
2.
Users are easily being
tracked
Users’ information is
shared without any
consent.

29. Facebook privacy problems:
Users disclose too
much
1.
2.
Personal Privacy is not
well protected
Third parties are
looking to take profit
of users’ information
3.

30. Why Personal Privacy is not well protected?
For example, Facebook users’ may not be
aware that Facebook default settings for
photo albums is “global”

31. Personal information
is exposed to
strangers on
Facebook

32. Your Facebook “friends”
own your personal content
and can give it to a whole
range of other people.

33. The amount of
users’ disclosed
information on
Facebook is highly
valuable for
companies for
marketing issues.

34. We are free Facebook
labourers, that profits
from us.

35. The old adage
“Knowledge is
power” speaks
about the power
Facebook has
gained
recollecting
information
about over a
billion users.

36. Knowledge is key to
the exercise of
power

37. “The world is embracing new standards of
conduct, enforced not only by surveillance
and coertion but by willful disclosure:
regulation by revelation.”
Ann Florini

38. Transparency as a
public good might
become a public
bad that infringes
on personal
privacy.

39. Despite the disadvantages of
having a Facebook account,
deleting a Facebook account may
also be a disadvantage for our
social and professional matters.

40. The use of Facebook is very useful for freedom of
expression especially in countries that use some
form of oppression for dissidents.

41. Facebook represents a
public space, where the
power is exercised

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