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The Fine Print: Is Privacy Really Yours?

 The one section of social media that just about ninety percent of individuals ignore and accept is the terms and conditions that almost any app, site, or company uses as a legal agreement between the service and its user. Companies like Twitter and Instagram and Facebook are some of the popular sites for people to go about posting their mundane lives every minute and every second of the day in the form of 140 character tweets, stories, etc. or just to catch up on news or celebrity garbage. Doesn't matter the reason you may use these services for but I bet you didn't know that in the service agreements for Twitter they retain all the rights to everything even if the account is closed or deactivated, so your platform for "free-speech" is owned all by Twitter. Facebook has hidden a few controversial statements in their terms and conditions being about data collection to conduct psychological studies as well as retaining rights to any photo in any capacity they want even as going far enough to delete your account unless those photos/content have been removed. Instagram is platform where you the user have agreed to let the company use or modify your content freely and whenever they want (royalty-free) as you agreed to waive any type of lawsuit against the company.


Companies such as iTunes and Spotify disclaim that any music you buy is music you actually don't own rather that you pay to have the right to use or listen to that media such as Taylor swift, but not only do you not own the music, you may also not use iTunes as a service to export or develop, design chemical biological/missiles/nuclear weapons, weird right? 

Spotify while not having clauses such like bio weapons, does still have some sketchy clauses of their own as they are granted access to basically everything in your phone from media, contacts and photos which most terms and conditions do ask for in the present, but it's still a concern for your privacy from personal information you may not want shared or at the very least your banking information which most if not all individuals use online. (look at how easily the Russian economy fell and how their people were unable to buy train/bus fares because of denied online payments due to heavy sanctions)






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  1. AnonymousMay 8, 2022 at 1:17 PM

    Privacy statements and Terms and Conditions are definitely interesting issues within this 'new' technology-centered world. I know that there have been plenty of times where a person wanted to do or say something about a specific company (specifically social media companies) but they legally couldn't because of the terms and conditions they accepted when they joined the company or used its services. I didn't know about the iTunes or Spotify terms, but that doesn't make it any less creepy. I'm sure, in the coming years, people will either become much more interested in what companies are doing with our date or they will continue to completely ignore it, as we've done for a while.

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