Privacy in general is in such a strange spot, but when it comes to new media it is in a very strange spot. I can't remember the article, I browse google news app on my phone entirely too much, but there was an article about Facebook and it's privacy settings. The article tells of how a member of the Zuckerberg family, Randi who is Mark's sister, had posted a personal family photo but because another user was friends with Randi's sister they were able to see the photo. Thinking Randi posted it publicly, because the user was a subscriber to Randi, the photo was retweeted out.
The exchange that followed afterward between Randi and Callie, the user who retweeted the photo, was saved by Buzzfeed, and can be found here, which is pretty ironic considering who Randi is related to. It is funny because her privacy was breached accidentally by a fellow user, where as everyone else's was breached by the creator of the website.
This is the reason I closed my facebook account and generally don't post to any social media. There is no way to know what is happening behind the scenes of these sites. It may sound like paranoia, but coming from a job in IT I know what kind of back end access I have to the work accounts my colleagues use and I am not the owner of the company. So if I have that much information at my hands, imagine what the owner of a website that people put all their personal information onto has.
I have also read that anything you post on facebook and instagram is owned by Facebook. As a graphic designer I refrain from posting original content to avoid issues with privacy. Its interesting because these website encourage publishing your own content but at the same time Is it really yours after posting?
ReplyDeleteI also read that article. So if that happens to one of the "owners" literately, what will be left to us. If she doesn't even understand well her privacy settings what about other people. It is crazy how people don't take this seriously when it comes to their privacy on social media. Now that i read what you just said I am even more surprised because how is that possible? It means that nothing is private on the internet.
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