Teens finally understand rights after lawyer translates Instagram terms into plain English - 3 views
www.smh.com.au/...n-english-20170108-gtny6d.html
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how much do these teens understand what they've agreed to give up when they start an account with those sites?
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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."
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Instagram's terms of use in total run at least seven printed pages, with more than 5000 words, mostly written in legalese.
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"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."