This document summarizes key points from Facebook's terms of service. It notes that Facebook promotes openness and transparency by allowing users to share information and take it with them if they leave. However, anything shared publicly like a user's name, profile photos, gender and networks can be accessed by anyone. The document warns that users should be careful about privacy settings and checks them regularly as Facebook may change default settings. It also mentions that Facebook collects data every time a user interacts on the site.

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Terms of Service
NET303
Policy Primer

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3. Which is all well and good your thinking, but what
about privacy issues? You want to know what you’re
signing up for.

4. But to get you started here are a few facts
from Facebook’s Terms of Service or TOC.
Facebook promotes “openness and
transparency by giving individuals greater
power to share and connect.” (Facebook
2012)
You own your information and can share it
with who ever you want too. You can also
remove it and take it “anywhere they want.”
(Facebook 2012)

5. Facebook encourage you to read their Statement
of Rights and Responsibilities.
They ask you to help them keep Facebook safe
and they don’t guarantee your safety. have a
Data Use Policy

8. Facebook’s TOS has safety warnings about
bullying, spam and other nasty stuff that includes hate
speech, nudity, porn and violence. (Facebook 2012)
You can’t do any of that stuff and you can
report to Facebook if you see anything
you deem to be offensive.

10. If you don’t want
your age or birth
date out there, you
can choose not to
make it public.
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“Your name, profile pictures, cover
photos, gender, networks, username and User
ID are treated just like information you choose
to make public.” (Facebook 2012)

11. When you post a comment, photo or video you can
choose to make it public, friends or custom. (Facebook
2012)

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13. “The real privacy
concerns arise when
users allow people they
do not know and
normally would not
trust to have access to
the personally
identifiable information
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they have made
available.”
Goettke, R., &
Christiana, J. (2007)

15. Facebook also collect data EVERY TIME
you interact on Facebook, “such as when
you look at another person's
timeline, send or receive a
message, search for a friend or a
Page, click on, view or otherwise interact
with things.” (Facebook 2012)

16. This makes the privacy and
application settings an important
page on Facebook.
REMEMBER that Facebook do and
will change the settings back to
their DEFAULT mode when they
update, so check back regularly.
They’re sneaky like that!

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Facebook (2012) Facebook Terms of Service Retrieved 9 October 2012 from:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
Facebook (2012) Facebook Privacy Policy. Retrieved 12 October 2012 from:
https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy
Facebook (2012) Facebook Data Use Policy. Retrieved 10 October 2012 from:
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Goettke, R., & Christiana, J. (2007). Privacy and Online Social Networking Websites.
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