Facebook Policy Primer (NET303)

1. Policy Primer
By Theresa Keecherer [NET303]
Facebook
(wctechblog.com, 2015, Figure 1)

2. Currently, 1.3 billion people from
around the world are active users
of Facebook. (Financial Times, 2014)
(jscreationsz, 2015, Figure 2)

3. Facebook allows users to have the ability to easily
communicate and share information on a
global scale (Financial Times, 2014)
(iconfinder.com, 2015, Figure 3)

4. So how much of our
information is
actually shared across
Facebook?
(Stock Images, 2015, Figure 4)

5. Your
Facebook
Page
Your
Friend’s
Page
Your
Friend’s
Page
A Friend of
a Friend’s
Page
A Friend of
a Friend’s
Page
A Friend of
a Friend’s
Page
A Friend of
a Friend’s
Page
A Friend of
a Friend’s
Page
A Friend of
a Friend’s
Page
Facebook
Data
Collection
Marketing &
Advertising
Campaigns
Third
Party Data
Collection
(Facebook.com, 2015)

6. Any purchases that are made
via Facebook are subject to
data collection including that of
personal financial information!
(Facebook.com, 2015)
Facebook allows third parties
to collect data about user
activity which includes
personal information, user
whereabouts, a user’s
navigational activity and the
type of content that is shared!
(Facebook.com, 2015)
DID YOU KNOW….
(Dominici, 2015, Figure 5)

7. Facebook has the right to
track your information
through your mobile via
the social plugins such as
the ‘Like Button’ (Fidler,
2015)
.
(Master Isolated Images, 2015, Figure 6)

8. According to Facebook’s
privacy policy, a user does
has control over whether
the information they share
is available for public
viewing or not by altering
their privacy settings.
However, any information
that is shared by other
users, is subject to being
made public by other users
on-sharing, photo tagging,
and commenting
(Facebook, 2015).
“A study reported that people are
very unconfident about changing
the privacy settings of their
Facebook account and that 95%
of frequent users of Facebook
have changed their status
update at least once a month”
(Zlatolas et al. 2015).
(Photostock, 2015, Figure 8)

9. “Facebook does allow
requests for personal tags,
comments, photos and other
information to be removed
however often the material
needs to be deemed sexually
offensive, racial, over-
political or religiously fanatic
for this to occur”
(Facebook, 2015), (Lang &
Barton, 2015)
If you were to delete your
Facebook profile, not all
information about you is
removed…Only the information
you personally posted. All other
data about you is retained by
the platform which can then
be used for their own purposes
(Fidler, 2015).
(Dominici, 2015, Figure 9)

10. (Arztsamui, 2015, Figure 10)

12. Company Advertising Campaigns
are an example of third party
content (Facebook, 2015).
(facebook.com, 2015, Figure 11)

13. (Miles, 2015, Figure 12)

14. Get to know your Facebook account settings:
- Change your profile to ‘Private’ and not visible to the public
- Disable third parties from accessing your information via apps, websites
and Plugins
- Change your ‘Tagging’ preference so that you can view and approve of
any posts that you may be tagged in before it gets posted
- Opt-out of third party advertising which tracks your navigational
movements
(Facebook, 2015), (Computer Active, 2013).
Be careful what you post and share with others:
- Never post any information that may be confidential or of a private nature
- Never disclose personal or sensitive information such as bank details
- Only accept friend requests from people that you know and trust. You can
prevent unwanted messages and friend requests in the settings
(Facebook, 2015), (Computer Active, 2013).
AND…………

15. (Valuewalk.com, n.d. Figure 13)

16. References
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Dominici, D. C (2015), Figure 5. Retrieved from http://freedigitalphotos.net
Dominici, D. C (2015), Figure 9. Retrieved from http://freedigitalphotos.net
Facebook, (2015). Figure 11. Retrieved from http://facebook.com/theresa.keecherer
Facebook. (2015). Facebook Data Policy. Retrieved from http://facebook.com
Facebook. (2015). Facebook Terms and Conditions. Retrieved from http://facebook.com
Facebook. (2014, Jul 26). Financial Times Retrieved from
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Jscreationsz (2015). Figure 2. Retrieved from http://freedigitalphotos.net
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Photostock (2015). Figure 8. Retrieved from http://freedigitalphotos.net
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