Users that have social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter do not realize that those sites are not used for just catching up and trending things anymore. What are they being used for then? Those social media sites are being used to collect all of that users data. For example anytime you like a picture on a site, that is automatically what your news feed is going to be filtered through. Or when a user goes to type something in there search engine they are automatically going to see advertisements and have their news feed filtered to that certain topic. As for me being a social media user I see how people feel about their social media and how important it can be to them, but don’t we have the right to more privacy on those sites so we can
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That data can then be used to not only influence voters, trail the campaigners, but it can summarize job applications and also disclose the user’s physical effort. With that, what has been done by not only the companies of social media and all the users to prevent the data being abused? Nothing at all because social media has given the smallest consideration to the fitting issues that have come up to the attention by the users. The issues we tend to have with social media today has become more and more available for the government and businesses to find out that they have all of this control over the majority of the data that has or is used for computer social science studies. Even though there are laws that confines monitor and protecting medical records there are still possible loop holes through the systems. Social media goes through a four class system of its users- the business clients, they come together to target the advertisements. The government which is the second class where the U.S government hassles Twitter for the data on the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and all of those that are connected to him. The third class is all of the other social media users such as journalists and providers. The social media platform that provides users with social media is the final …show more content…
The New York City-based has made this startup plan to make their money by charging companies for the access the trends that are found in the information, after the personal detecting is once removed. The CEO and cofounder, Matt Hogan, says that there is nearly 1,500 people that contracted themselves with the beta trial. Tom Simonite wrote in his article ‘Sell Your Personal Data For $8 a Month’ says that Datacoup got the idea from Datalogix, which Facebook and Twitter use. Datalogix links a user’s activity and the list of the things that have been bought. Alessandro Acquisti says that “Ethically, it makes no sense that you know what is happening to your data and how an entity is using it and what the possible consequences are”. On the negative side, Datacoup does not allow users to take control of their own data. Twitter, Facebook, and credit card companies it has connected with hold all of that information and can continually make a profit. If a company who is upfront with the users about what they would like to sell of that user’s personal data they are most likely going to join there business. When a user uses social media they would also like to be informed of how it is going to be not only properly but safely deleted so it gets in the hands of no one it
That data can then be used to not only influence voters, trail the campaigners, but it can summarize job applications and also disclose the user’s physical effort. With that, what has been done by not only the companies of social media and all the users to prevent the data being abused? Nothing at all because social media has given the smallest consideration to the fitting issues that have come up to the attention by the users. The issues we tend to have with social media today has become more and more available for the government and businesses to find out that they have all of this control over the majority of the data that has or is used for computer social science studies. Even though there are laws that confines monitor and protecting medical records there are still possible loop holes through the systems. Social media goes through a four class system of its users- the business clients, they come together to target the advertisements. The government which is the second class where the U.S government hassles Twitter for the data on the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and all of those that are connected to him. The third class is all of the other social media users such as journalists and providers. The social media platform that provides users with social media is the final …show more content…
The New York City-based has made this startup plan to make their money by charging companies for the access the trends that are found in the information, after the personal detecting is once removed. The CEO and cofounder, Matt Hogan, says that there is nearly 1,500 people that contracted themselves with the beta trial. Tom Simonite wrote in his article ‘Sell Your Personal Data For $8 a Month’ says that Datacoup got the idea from Datalogix, which Facebook and Twitter use. Datalogix links a user’s activity and the list of the things that have been bought. Alessandro Acquisti says that “Ethically, it makes no sense that you know what is happening to your data and how an entity is using it and what the possible consequences are”. On the negative side, Datacoup does not allow users to take control of their own data. Twitter, Facebook, and credit card companies it has connected with hold all of that information and can continually make a profit. If a company who is upfront with the users about what they would like to sell of that user’s personal data they are most likely going to join there business. When a user uses social media they would also like to be informed of how it is going to be not only properly but safely deleted so it gets in the hands of no one it