“By clicking Accept, you
agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.” Does anyone actually read
all of the regulations and policies before accepting? Not really. The Guardian actually did a study to
find out just how many people in all of Great Britain actually read the fine
print; the survey revealed that ONLY 7% of Britons read online terms and
conditions when signing up for products and services! That is a pretty small
amount of people, especially considering how popular social media is. So, why
don’t we read the fine print to make sure we’re not accepting something we
don’t agree with? Well…we’re lazy. The Terms and Conditions takes FOREVER to
read through and uses words that we don’t really understand. Although, it is
super annoying to have to read all of the policies presented by a company, it’s
actually really important to at least familiarize yourself with what exactly
you are agreeing to.
Snapchat is an extremely
popular social networking app, especially among the younger demographic. The
reason that the younger generation loves it so much is because of the feature
that allows users to take photos that disappear after the receiver has viewed
it. This has probably made parents a little more uneasy than other social
networking platforms considering they can’t look through their child’s phone to
make sure that they aren’t sending anything inappropriate.
So, why is everyone
freaking out about Snapchat lately? Well, Marketwatch
explains that Snapchat’s updated privacy
policy has claimed the rights to reproduce, modify, and republish photos
and save them to Snapchat’s servers, specifically in relation to the ‘Live
Story’ feature. So yeah, all of the
people who have sent pictures that definitely don’t want any chance to be resurfaced
are freaking out about Snapchat’s violation of their privacy. But hey, Snapchat
didn’t technically do anything wrong; all of its users agreed to it.
So, next time one of your
apps, products, or services tells you “By clicking Accept, you agree to the
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy,” you might want to read into what you are
agreeing to.
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