Instagram is a photo sharing app that allows users to upload and share photos with followers. However, the document outlines several important terms and policies users should be aware of regarding their privacy and content ownership. Specifically, it notes that by using Instagram, users agree to relinquish ownership rights over their photos and allow Instagram to use their content worldwide. The document also warns of potential privacy and safety risks to users, especially young people, from geotagging photos and oversharing personal information. Overall, it advises users to carefully read Instagram's terms and policies to understand how their data and content can be used.

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Lets talk terms ... *

2. Instant photo sharing, instant
updates for your followers.
Instagram is an application with
multiple links to friends,
conversations and images.
Whether you are a new user or
have already started
uploading......
you should know
there are limits
to your rights and
content ownership.

3. * Instagram is a file sharing application allowing
users to upload images and videos to share with
followers of their social media sites like
Facebook, Twitter or Instagram itself.
* Instagram aims to make it easy for users to upload
and manipulate their images.
•Download the app, upload your images, add
some tags and users will find you.
(Latorre-Martínez, & Iñíguez-Berrozpe, 2014, p. 18)

4. But wait ! Have you read
Instagram's Terms
of Use?
Are you familiar with
Instagram's Privacy
Policy?
Do you know your rights?
Or the rights you may be
giving up?
Are you ready to
relinquish control over
your content?
Do you know that facebook owns instagram?
(Privacy Policy, Instagram, 2014)

5. Lets look at what users of the service agree to:
* User access to Instagram can be terminated
without notice or liability to the user.
* Photos from a terminated account may persist
on Instagram but will not be accessible
through the terminated account .
* Users grant Instagram a fully paid, transferable
licence to use their content worldwide.
* Users agree to pay any fees or other money
owed by reason of their content.
(Terms and Conditions, Instagram, 2014)

8. And what about user privacy?
What information are users
uploading with
their photos?

9. Tags can make it easy for users to find one
another and location specific content.
What about the dangers of
But it can also enable surveillance
and predatory behaviour
(Sanborn, Shields, & Snow, 2014).
young users uploading geotagged
images in real time.
Future privacy can be compromised
by the data trail created today.
(Lessig, 1998)
And consider that Instagram terms are dictated by Facebook.
Hence the complication of these terms following Facebook’s acquisition.
Sanveneroa, 2014, pp. 92 -93

10. m e . . . y e a r s f r o m n o w
m e . . . s o o n
The online
availability of
historical data
enables searching
as well as
monitoring.
(Lessig, 1998, p. 1)
access to data does
not equal deletion
A user’s loss of
of data.
m e . . . n o w

11. What users can do . . . .
Take the time to read and digest the terms and
conditions of new and existing media tools.
Check out an applications feedback in forums and
online articles.
Consider the application’s terms and limits in the
context of current and future needs and uses.
Educate young users about online responsibilities,
dangers and technological ethics (Lyon, 2002, p. 247).
Create limited versions of online content by
watermarking images, disabling geotags and limit
linking between multiple applications.

12. Best tip - Enjoy the applications that
work for you, but use them on your terms.
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Instagram. (2014). Privacy Policy . Retrieved from http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/
Instagram. (2014). Terms of Use . Retrieved from http://instagram.com/about/legal/terms/
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