Facebook Policy Primer Unravelling the Terms of Service

1. Policy PrimerPolicy Primer
Unraveling the Terms of ServiceUnraveling the Terms of Service
Helen Pidoulas
25 October 2010

2. What is Facebook?
People can:People can:
Add friendsAdd friends
Share photos & status updatesShare photos & status updates
Play games onlinePlay games online
Join groupsJoin groups
Collaborate in other ways…Collaborate in other ways…
(Facebook, 2010)

3. Create an accountCreate an account
 You're over 18 years
 Between 13-18 (parents
supervision)
You can join if:You can join if:
 You're under 13 years
 You're a convicted sex offender
You can't join if:You can't join if:
So, what's the catch?So, what's the catch?
 You have to accept
Facebook's Terms of
Service (Facebook,
2010)
How do you join?How do you join?

4. What does that mean?What does that mean?
In a nutshell:In a nutshell:
Less privacy
(Privacy and the Internet, 2008)
Targeted advertising
Digital history

5. Its all fun and games...Its all fun and games...
Until someone gets hurtUntil someone gets hurt
 Harassment
 Bullying
 Stolen identities
DELETED!!!!DELETED!!!!
But I'm innocent! I swear!But I'm innocent! I swear!
 Too late
 Oh, and your data is mine
You should review our Terms of
Service for the reasons why...

6. There's so much to read!There's so much to read!

7. Read the terms and
you'll learn...
Facebook owns your:Facebook owns your:
 Photos, posts, friends and their feeds
Facebook sells you:Facebook sells you:
 With your implied consent
 Using targeted ads

8. Termination
What you can't do
Copyright
Ownership
3rd
parties
Privacy
Reading the terms only takesReading the terms only takes
you so far...you so far...
Read & learn
about your online
privacy
(Goettke & Christiana,
2007)
Check that your
privacy settings
are high
(Introna, 1997)
Poster beware:
It all belongs to
you

9. Too important to miss:Too important to miss:
Free, is not really free. The price is your privacy in
this online life. (Lyon, 2002)

10. ReferencesReferences
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Policy. Retrieved from: http://gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
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http://www.privac yrights .org/fs/fs1 8-cyb.htm
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https://projects .eff.org/~bar low/Declaration-Final.html
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http://www.ee cs.harvard.edu/cs 199r/fp/RichJ oe.pdf
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11. ReferencesReferences
Introna, L. D. (1997). Privacy and the computer: why we need privacy in the information society.
Metaphilosophy, 28(3), 259-275. Retrieved from the Curtin Library Database
Johnson, D., & Post, D. (1996). Law And Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace. Stanford Law Review, 1367.
Retrieved from: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is02/readings/johnson-post.html
Lessig, L. (1998). The Architecture of Privacy. Retrieved from:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/works/lessig/architecture_priv.pdf
Lessig, L. (1998). The Laws of Cyberspace. http://www.lessig.org/content/articles/works/laws_cyberspace.pdf
Lyon, D. (2002). “Everyday Surveillance: Personal Data and Social Classification,” Information, Communication,
and Society, 5(1). Retrieved from: http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/kbe/lyon_surveillance.pdf
Myers, K. (2006). Wikimmunity: Fitting the Communications Decency Act to Wikipedia. Harvard Journal of Law &
Technology, 163. Retrieved from: http://ssrn.com/abstract=916529
O'Sullivan, M. (2008). Creative Commons and contemporary copyright: A fitting shoe or “a load of old cobblers”?
in First Monday, 13(1). Retrieved from:
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borders in cyberspace. First Monday, 11(1). Retrieved from:
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12. Thank you !