A look at CNNs terms of use and privacy policy

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An exploration of CNNs Terms of Use
and Privacy Policy
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2.  CNN is one of the worlds largest news
organisations, and probably the largest.
 CNNs online presence includes its website,
smartphone app and social media presence
 Accessing any of these services “you agree to
comply with all of the terms and conditions”

3. In the Internet age “everyday
convenience, efficiency and
security depends upon
surveillance” Lyon, 2002

4. A look at CNNs Terms of Use
and Privacy Statement is useful
in exploring the inevitability of
surveillance in the Internet age
and how web services in
general retain our data.

5.  As a news site, CNN has published thousands of
articles related to
 Moral Censorship
 Surveillance
 Privacy
 Ownership
 So what is CNNs Policy on each of these important
Issues?
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6.  By contributing to CNN you automatically
agree not to upload, post or otherwise transmit:
 Content that violates the rights of others
 Content that is offensive to the online
community
 Material that contains and advocates
pornography
 Content that violates any law
(From CNN Service Agreement Section 2b)

7.  “CNN shall have the right, but not the
obligation, to monitor User Content posted
or uploaded to CNN.com to determine
compliance with these Terms of Service and
any operating rules established by CNN and
to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized
government request.” (From CNN Service
Agreement Section 2c)

8.  “We…may collect various types of non-personally
identifiable information when
you visit any of our sites.” (From CNN
Privacy Statement)
 For example – IP Address, Browser, Web pages
visited before and after CNN.COM

9.  “you may allow us to have access to certain
information from your social media profile
(e.g., name, e-mail address, photo, gender,
birthday, location, user files like photos and
videos, your list of friends, people you
follow and/or who follow you, the posts or
the ‘likes’ you make, etc.)” (From CNN
Privacy Statement)

10.  As mentioned, CNN would need to comply with any
“authorised government request”, but mainly your
data is retained for advertising:
 “We use this information to facilitate participation
in these online forums and communities and, from
time to time, to offer you products, programs,
services or customized experiences.”
 “Our goal at the Turner Network is to provide you
with ads that are relevant to you.” (From CNN
Privacy Statement)

12.  “By submitting User Content to CNN.com,
you automatically grant …the royalty-free,
perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right
and license to use, publish, reproduce,
modify, adapt, edit, translate, create
derivative works from, incorporate into
other works, distribute, sub-license and
otherwise exploit such User Content” ( From
CNN Service Agreement - Part 2(d))

13.  As with most other online services, CNN uses
“cookies” to track your usage data
 You must be over the age of 13 to submit content
 “CNN may terminate or suspend these Terms of
Service at any time without notice to You”. (From
CNN Service Agreement Section 8)
 CNN is a participant in the Digital media
industries self regulatory program – which aims to
“provide consumers with the ability to exercise
choice” with regards to online advertising.

14. 
 “we cannot assure you that
personally identifiable
information that we collect will
never be disclosed in a manner
that is inconsistent with this
privacy statement.” (From
CNN Privacy statement)

15.  Branson Powers. (2011). Twitter-cnn [Image]. Retrieved from
http://www.bransonpowers.com/?p=478
 Digital Advertising Alliance. (2010). The Digital Advertising
Alliance's (DAA) Self-Regulatory Program for Online
Behavioural Advertising. Retrieved from
http://www.aboutads.info/
 Google Play. (2014). CNN application logo [Image]. Retrieved
from https://play.google.com/store/search?q=cnn&hl=en
 Imarcade. (2014). CNN.com logo [Image]. Retrieved from
http://imgarcade.com/1/cnn.com-logo/
 Lyon, D. (2002) Everyday Surveillance: Personal Data and
Social Classification, Information, Communication, and Society,
5(1). Retrieved from
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/cyberspace/lyon_ics.pdf

16.  St Kilda Marina. (2014). Surveillance-security-camera2 [Image].
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 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (2013). CNN Privacy Statement.
Retrieved from http://edition.cnn.com/privacy.html
 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (2019). CNN Service Agreement.
Retrieved from http://edition.cnn.com/interactive_legal.html
 Webdig. (2011). Fb-cnn [Image]. Retrieved from
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 Zawya. (2014). CNN named undisputed #1 international new
brand [Press release]. Retrieved from
http://www.zawya.com/story/CNN_named_undisputed_1_inte
rnational_news_brand-ZAWYA20141014091828/