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Teens finally understand rights after lawyer translates Instagram terms into plain English - 3 views

www.smh.com.au/...n-english-20170108-gtny6d.html

rights digital citizenship ETL523 privacy terms conditions plain english

shared by jo quinlan on 01 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • how much do these teens understand what they've agreed to give up when they start an account with those sites?
  • of course no one reads them. I mean, most adults don't read them."
  • Most of those children have no idea what their privacy rights are, despite all of them agreeing to terms and conditions before starting their social media accounts
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  • unwittingly giving away personal information, with no real understanding of who is holding that information, where they are holding it and what they are going to do with it."
  • Instagram's terms of use in total run at least seven printed pages, with more than 5000 words, mostly written in legalese.
  • teenagers said they understood very little about privacy rights on Instagram
  • registered at a postgraduate reading level
  • "Instagram, like many social networks, leaves the user with very little information to exercise their rights or any genuine privacy," the report said. "This exercise makes it clear that the current offering made by websites and apps to their users is not acceptable. Children and young people have the right to know how the relationship between their rights and the rights of the service that they have signed up to use, functions."
  • jo quinlan on 01 Mar 17
     
    How much do teens understand what they've agreed to give up when they start an account with social media sites?
jo quinlan

Social Media Privacy Terms Translated into Plain English, Finally - 4 views

globaldigitalcitizen.org/cial-media-digital-citizenship

social media digital citizenship ETL523 settings

shared by jo quinlan on 23 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • jo quinlan on 23 Mar 17
     
    Simpler is Better (We Hope) We've chosen three of today's most popular social networks and given you a bit of news on how their terms and conditions have been revised recently. Hopefully, this is information your kids and students will be able to use to keep themselves safe when using social media.
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