Thursday, 18 February 2016

Do As I Say (Assignment #2)


First I chose to review the Terms of Services of Twitter, since it is a site I use a lot myself. It states:

"If you are accepting these Terms and using the Services on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so."
This basically is saying once you've agreed to this and created your Twitter account, you now have to obey all the rights and terms of services maturely. You leave a digital footprint wherever you go, and even on Twitter, a reputation will build up for you.

Second site (something I rarely use, but was interested to see what it stated to its users): Facebook. Terms and Policies.

I found that it exactly states it will have the right to use all information it receives about you, including some things that you haven't even done yet.
Facebook also uses strategic partnerships to track your purchases in real life which to me is very creepy. They also use you for your data and research, and always remember that Facebook has the right to change its Terms and Policies at any time it wants, while your profile still must obey these things. They could change it to anything, and you'd have to do as it says...

Third thing: iTunes.

iTunes, believe it or not, has some extremely creepy agreements that you most likely agreed to.
One being the fact it knows exactly who you are and what you're doing, at any given moment. You may not have noticed much of their statements (because lets be honest - no one wants to read a 56-page agreement contract, even if they do have the time.) There are some terrifying ones. iTunes basically Geo-Tracks you, meaning it knows your exact precise location, and once you agree with iTunes' "contract" this means that somewhere hidden on your computer is a log of everywhere you've been with a longitude/latitude coordinate and a time stamp. Apparently this is to create more ads that apply better to you and the things you like, but to me it's one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.
There's also this:
Yeah, very creepy.

Fourth: Snapchat
I think everyone know how creepy Snapchat's privacy policies and terms and conditions can be - and that they allegedly used to save your photos to their servers. Apparently now that's not the case. In 2015, around October, they changed their "contract" around. Of course the photos are still sent through the servers - but apparently, not saved into them now. But yes there are still people who will be screenshotting and saving your sent photos to their own phones/devices. Snapchat specifically states they try and notify you as much as possible is someone does screenshot you, but they can't always promise (especially if the person does it the old-fashioned way of using another camera just to take a picture of the device screen.) This is the link to the article I got most of this creepy information about: click here.

Fifth & final: Spotify
Spotify has some eerie terms and conditions too. Even though the boss of Spotify came out and said his apology for the dramatic and creepy terms and conditions, they remain partially the same. Almost as standard as most apps' terms and conditions, it states the basics like: Access to your microphone, Photos, Camera. Most people blow over the boring terms and conditions agreements, even though they've got no idea exactly what they're agreeing to...

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