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Information Systems
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Nov 24, 2024
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Journal Questions
1)
How concerned are you about companies like Meta and Google collecting
information about what you like, where you go, and what you buy? Why or why
not?
It is indeed an irrefutable fact that an individual’s personal data and information is never kept
confidential while using internet. Search engines like Meta and Google sell one’s personal
information to third parties for the purpose of getting advertisements and generating revenues
through it. For this reason, I am genuinely concerned about these companies collecting the
information about my favorite items, my personal possessions, and my newly bought antique
pieces. I personally consider this act a fraudulent practice and a treacherous behavior (Matsakis,
2019) to keep a close eye on others’ personal things. As a collector of antique jewels, stamps, and
coins, I often buy them online and never want anyone to know about them at any cost. These
precious items are very valuable to me and I prefer to sell them on auctions after delivering
informative lectures on their worth. However, Meta and Google gather the information about my
articles due to which I often get useless calls by non-serious people eager to buy them at cheap
rates. Therefore, I simply dislike this trend of Meta and Google and have raised voices on several
platforms to ban these search engines from knowing about our daily lives and personal choices.
2)
Do you read the terms and conditions which are presented for you to ‘agree with’ or
‘consent to’ when you are opening a new social media account?
It is a widely accepted fact that terms and conditions are the legal agreements to save one’s
social media accounts and the usage of a particular site; including, preventing abuses, creating
creative content, and limiting the legal liabilities. For these reasons, a checkbox of terms and
conditions is always there to get ticked by the internet user before creating a new social media
account. Despite its importance, I do not bother to read the terms and conditions before opening
a new social media account because I know that they are about the ways of using this account
and maintaining it. In each social media account like Facebook, Skype, Instagram, and Twitter,
terms and conditions are more or less the same concerning the legal issues, the privacy, and the
blocking of one’s account in case of misuse (Hennel, 2021). Being a continuous user and a great
fan of different social media accounts, I prefer to use them often without reading about their
terms of usage. Moreover, I only use my social media accounts for posting my pictures and
sharing personal videos. Therefore, I think that reading terms and conditions is not essential in
my case because I do not have official social media accounts for business or international
purposes.
References
Hennel, C. (2021, September 14). “Agree to terms and conditions” checkbox examples & how-
to-add guide.
Termly
, https://termly.io/resources/articles/agree-to-terms-and-conditions-
checkbox/.
Matsakis, L. (2019, February 15). The WIRED guide to your personal data (and who is using it).
Wired
, https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-personal-data-collection/.
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