Week 8 - 'Facebook isn't looking out for your privacy. It wants your data for itself'

'Facebook isn't looking out for your privacy. It wants your data for itself'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/02/facebook-privacy-data-admiral

The car insurance website Admiral posted content online to help Facebook users with their car insurance quotes by simple clicking on the link and seeing if they were eligible - Facebook responded by asking Admiral to take this post down as it was a breech to their privacy settings

• The terms and conditions state that "You own all the content and information that you put on Facebook" and "you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings" 
• When the post got taken down Facebook announced “Protecting the privacy of the people on Facebook is of utmost importance to us. We have clear guidelines that prevent information being obtained from Facebook from being used to make decisions about eligibility.”
• The Admiral post was opt-in so they could not see anything that customers did not directly share with them - all users had to do was scan their profiles 
• To access games on Facebook you are required to share personal information 
• The concept is that Facebook use their data to discriminate and want only them to be able to do that, disallowing other sites to do so

What is most interesting about this news report is the fact that the content that is posted on Facebook is what the person themselves freely chooses to post, the privacy terms and conditions are made aware to all users which therefore brings about this idea of the user and what they are willing to publish on the internet nowadays. It is common that you would type your name or email address without hesitation on a well known site due to the loyalty you have which lies with it. This idea of privacy is something that plays a bit part in journalism also as journalists have certain rights to not breech the privacy of celebrities or certain people, however the real unanswered question is how far are you possibly able to take the privacy rights and what draws the line at being unethical? I think the fact that users are willing to freely and openly express so much about themselves on the internet today is an issue, especially with the younger demographic as they are not aware of the dangers of this and the potential effect of revealing too much.