http://www.govtech.com/security/There-is-No-Such-Thing-as-True-Privacy-in-the-Digital-Age.html
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Social media allows users the possibility to give away a lot of information. The things they like and interact with are all telling of who we are and companies can easily capitalize on this information. That’s why timely content is only that; it gives users the chance to be closed off from the rest of the world. Forget private settings, that’s why Snapchat is the successful company it is. It only allows users you want to see your information — or more specifically, what you are up to. It’s easy to post or send something to only a select group of people within a closed community which is only more evidence that users on social media also care about privacy and maintaining that privacy.
Most people just click and accept privacy policies without reading them — you might be surprised at what they allow companies to do
The heart of the exchange of information is key to the background of privacy. When we use free services, especially various social media platforms, we engage in a bargain of giving away our services. As one of the privacy experts says, “Unless you’ve paid for it, you’re the product.”
Giving access to our location, our photos, our microphones, our cameras, and our contacts among a wide variety of other things ends up totaling to a lot of information. We don’t always fully realize how much we give away when we first sign up for an app. Personally, I’ve noticed that sometimes services that don’t require my location like a GPS or maps service does that ask for it or prefer it be on to work at full capacity.
Most shockingly companies don’t seem to care for the consumers’ privacy, as many in their policies say that have the liberty to change them at any time without notice. More scary is the fact that companies claim to anonymize data before selling it to third parties, however, that same data can easily be put together to find out who you are.
All in all, privacy policies across all companies need to do a better job at being clear and honest about what they are doing with consumers’ data.
