Privacy Policies.

The social media platform I have chosen is Facebook. With many high-profile cases of Facebook and creator Mark Zuckerberg being taken to court for privacy or policy issues. I thought this would be an interesting platform to use.

1. Users should have full knowledge of who sees their content, who saves their content and where their content is shared to.

In a world of screenshots and forwarding, posts that are meant for a close circle of your friends can be shared to the world with a simple screenshot. Each user should have the ability to see who screenshots and who it is sent to. Snapchat a social media platform shows if your pictures of messages are screenshotted, unlike Instagram, Facebook or twitter. Similar to Andersons article users should have the “right to know who has access to your data and for what purposes.” (Anderson, 2020). If a user has their Facebook profile on public then I believe they should probably not get this data as they are allowing anyone to view their profile and information.

•  Private messages should be kept private. Users should feel safe knowing that their private messages are kept between the users who are in the conversation and no third parties.

Users should allow to message freely without being worried about who has access to private information meant for friends and family. Now although I believe users should have full, private control their needs to be some sort of way to make sure information is respectful and appropriate. For example, ISIS using twitter as a recruiting tool and being allowed to freely. This needs to be monitored and properly controlled.

• If a user’s work is published/ released on a platform, then the work is copied or taken by someone else and used on the same platform to create an income. The original creator should have some sort of profit or compensation.

I believe that this is an important policy, as it is all too common for users to post their work only for it to be copy and pasted into someone else’s account, where they will receive some sort of money or reward. It is seen in the video game streaming world. Streamers post highlights of their gameplay on a social media platform for their fanbase to view. This video or image is then copied and added to a highlight reel or new video from a separate user. This user copied video or image then makes money with none of the profit going to the original creator (the video game streamer)

1. Anderson, J. (2020). A lawyer rewrote Instagram’s privacy policy so kids and parents can have a meaningful talk about privacy. Quartz. Retrieved 21 April 2020, from https://qz.com/878790/a-lawyer-rewrote-instagrams-terms-of-service-for-kids-now-you-can-understand-all-of-the-private-data-you-and-your-teen-are-giving-up-to-social-media/.