Part 1: Explore Terms of Service Agreements

Review the terms and answer the following questions.

a. Do you have an account with an online social media and/or storage provider? If so, have you
read the Terms of Service agreement?
With the given examples of social media in the document, I actually have one of each;
and of course, in making an account, these social media applications will require you to read
their Terms of Service Agreement before you proceed into using their platform.

b. What is the data use policy?

I will use Facebook for the succeeding questions since this was the first social media
account I created. The data use policy of Facebook is all about the processing of information to
support the app and its features. Actually, the data policy of Facebook is the same as Instagram
and Messenger since they are all under Meta Platforms. So, the first thing that they included in
the data policy is the kinds of information they collect. This information is collected depending
on how I use Facebook. These include information and content I provide, Networks and
connections or the people, groups, pages, and even hashtags that I’m connected to, and I
interact with; My usage or my engagement with the features along with the duration that I do
my activities on Facebook; and things others do and information they provide about me. They
also collect information about the devices that I use. In the data use policy, they also explained
how they make use of the information they collect, and they said that they use them for
provision, personalization, and improvement of their products like through research and
development, ads, and other sponsored content and even location-related information.

c. What are the privacy settings?

In exploring the settings of Facebook, we can see the privacy settings where I can
configure some tools and settings to my liking. So, there are three main basic privacy settings
which are selecting an audience for stuff I share, managing settings for how I connect and
Reviewing stuff others tag me in. Under these three are simple tutorials on how to configure my
account to enable or disable what I want. Actually, I’ve only recently learned that I can review
the posts that others tag me which I regret not configuring early on because I want to control
the posts that are displayed on my wall. In managing my privacy, I am also taught by Facebook
to customize my privacy settings. Like choosing who can see my posts, deleting posts, hiding my
friend list, tagging, untagging, using my location, the history of my search results, and many
more.
d. What is the security policy?

 The user has control over who sees what they share on Facebook
o This is done by customizing our privacy settings
o We can select who sees what we share by using the "Audience Selector"
tool. When we create a customized audience, we can selectively share with
specific people.
o Tag review and Timeline review are options that help us control who sees
what we post and what posts appear on our Timeline. Tag review lets us
approve or dismiss tags friends add to our posts. Once we approve a tag,
the person tagged, and their friends may see our post.

 The user can secure their accounts through tools provided by Facebook
o Passwords. Facebook requires users to use passwords that are hard to
guess. They should at least be 6 characters long and use a combination of
numbers, letters, and special characters.
o Alert Signals. Facebook alerts users about unrecognized logins. A user can
choose to get an alert when someone tries logging in from a computer,
phone, or tablet that Facebook doesn't recognize. These alerts will tell us
which device tried logging in and where it's located.
o Two-factor authentication. When a user turns on two-factor authentication,
they’ll be asked to enter a special security code each time they try to access
their Facebook account from a new computer, phone, or tablet.
o Logging out. The "Where You're Logged In" section of our "Security and
Login" settings shows us a list of computers, phones, and tablets that have
been used recently to log in to our account. The user is made known to
scams and Hacked accounts.
o Scams. Facebook provided the following to watch out for to protect
ourselves from scams:
 People who you don’t know asking for money
 People asking you for advance fees to receive a loan, prize or other
winnings
 People claiming to be a friend or relative in an emergency
 Messages or posts with poor spelling and grammar errors

o Hacked accounts.
 Facebook requires people to use their authentic names on Facebook
which helps motivate all of us to act responsibly, since our names
and reputations are visibly linked to our words and actions.
 They also ensure that if they discover that people have multiple
personal profiles, they might ask them to close any additional
profiles.
  They also remove accounts that impersonate other people.

e. What are your rights regarding your data? Can you request a copy of your data?
In the data policy of Facebook, they’ve included that as users we can manage or delete
information about ourselves. They give us the right to access, rectify, port, and erase our data.
Also, yes, we are given the ability to download a copy of our information on Facebook, there is a
tool for this which is the Download Your Information tool. This is found under Managing your
account – Accessing and Downloading Your Information. Additionally, If we delete our account,
Facebook deletes things we have posted, such as our photos and status updates, and we won't
be able to recover that information later.

f. What can the provider do with the data you upload?

This is also explained in detail in the data policy of Facebook. The provided use the data
we upload to personalize the application for us. Facebook uses the data to show us specific ads
and if it is posts that we upload then the data is used to share with people that we enabled to
what we post.

g. What happens to your data when you close your account?

Closing my account could mean three things, logging out, deactivating, or deleting.
These three do different things to my data. Logging out will still retain the data that I’ve put into
Facebook, same with deactivating it but in deactivating people can't see my timeline or search
for me. Although, some information may remain visible to others like messages. I will also not be
able to use your Facebook account to access Oculus Products or your Oculus information, and
pages that only I can control will also be deactivated. Although in deactivating, I have the ability
to reactivate my account unlike in deleting it, my data as said by Facebook, will also be deleted.
Posts, photos, status updates, are not recoverable anymore once I finally delete my account.

Part 2: Do You Know What You Signed Up For?

Review the articles and answer the following questions.

a. What can you do to protect yourself?

To protect myself, especially on the internet, first, there is a need to realize the
consequences or the effects of what I post. I should ask myself multiple times what could people
say about what I will be posting and what can they see if I were to post it. For me, privacy is a big
thing, and posting on social media sometimes can really get out of hand. It is important to
realize that our information especially if our privacy is not customized, people are able to access
it and view it, so there is a need to be cautious of what we post online. Also, there is a need to
be aware of scammers and hackers and this can be done by educating ourselves about their
ways of accessing our information. If we also have passwords that are hard to hack, we are able
to protect ourselves. As for the applications where we post our information, we should already
be aware of how they use our data as they’ve already stated in their data policies, but to ensure
that our data won’t be used against us or will be used for other things, it is important to be
aware of what we post and what we upload online.
b. What can you do to safeguard your account and protect your data?
As I’ve mentioned in the paragraph above, we can safeguard our accounts by having
secured passwords. This is important because this is something that we don’t share with others,
unlike the photos or statuses that we upload, passwords are not meant to be shared with
friends or anyone. As for data protection, we are able to customize our settings to increase our
privacy. If there are things that we are not comfortable with others seeing, then we can use the
tools that they provide in order to personalize our accounts. But, it is important to also realize
that prevention is better than cure, so it is crucial that we think first about the things we upload
online so that people with dark intentions are not able to victimize us.