For people who whine about having their privacy invaded, teens know remarkably little about their privacy rights on social media. Though, to be fair, the same could be said for many adults since those terms of use agreements read like Sanskrit.
One lawyer decided to break down Instagram into plain English for us.
“Afterward, the teenagers said they understood very little about privacy rights on Instagram, despite getting through the terms and conditions.
‘I don’t know due to the sheer amount of writing and lack of clarity within the document,’ a 15-year-old said, according to the report.
The group ran Instagram’s terms and conditions through a readability study and found that it registered at a postgraduate reading level, Afia said.”
I gave up on expecting privacy with respect to anything online years ago. The legal “mumbo-jumbo” is an intentional shroud to help maintain the illusion. Don’t you think?
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Yes, I think you’re right. I fought that idea for a long time, convinced we could be guaranteed our privacy online, but eventually I accepted that anything I put out there has to be considered public.
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