- 1. Twitter
- What lies behind those'Terms of Use'
2. Welcome
- Areas covered in the presentation will be
- Privacy
3. Content 4. Spam 5. Abuse 6. Trademark & Copyright 7.
Privacy
- Did I sign something to agree with this policy?'By using the
Site you are consenting to our processing of your information as
set forth in this Privacy Policy' (unknown, 2009) Every user is
bound by this agreement just by using twitter.
8. Privacy (cont)
- What can they do with my personally identifiable information?
'processing' is defined as 'collecting, storing, deleting, using,
combining and disclosing information' (unknown, 2009) 'Twitter may
sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of it's assets,
including your personally identifiable information' (unknown, 2009)
meaning that if Twitter is taken over, goes bankrupt, merges or
just needs some capital our data can be used as a commodity.
9. Privacy (cont) Who can access my information
- because the data is stored on US soil it is doesn't matter what
part of the world you are from US laws apply.
10. Privacy laws of the users country become irrelevant. 11. If
a government or Law Enforcement Officials or Private Parties in the
US gets a court order it can walk in to twitter headquarters and
help itself to your data. the good news is it's primarily to stop
illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity. The bad news is
that there is no statement anywhere in the documents stating how
long this data will be collected if not indefinitely. 12. Privacy
(cont)
- Protection of childrens personally identifiable data
- Policy is to delete personally identifiable data when Twitter
becomes aware that a user is under 13 years old. (Twitter Privacy
Policy, 2009)
13. Parents or Guardians must email privacy at twitter dot com
to have the data deleted (unkown, 2009) 14. In the Twitter sign up
page there is NO checkbox to tick stating the user is 13 or over.
15. Meaning that if a child under the age of 13 tries to sign up to
Twitter they have no idea that it is against Twitter policy unless
they read the privacy agreement. 16. Content Your rights 'You
retain the rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or
through the Services' (unknown, 2009)
- very basic and minimal opening statement of your rights
17. this sentence is then followed by all of the rights you are
giving to Twitter explained in the next slide 18. your rights
section is really an extension of the Twitter rights section with a
friendly title. 19. Content
- Twitter's rights Twitter has 'worldwide, non-exclusive
royalty-free licence (with the right to sublicence) to use, copy,
reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and
distribute such Content in any or all media or distribution
methods' (unknown, 2009) the content that no responsibility is
taken for can be rebroadcast anywhere and everywhere 'this licence
includes the right for Twitter to make such Content available to
other companies, organisations, or individuals who partner with
Twitter'(unknown, 2009) allowing user content to be applied to
databases for targeted marketing etc at a alter date
20. Spam
- Internal Spam The option to unsubscribe from regular
communication from Twitter is a good feature(unknown,2009) External
Spam 14 main points that can have a user removed from twitter for
spam related activities (crystal, 2009) ranging from spam
complaints against a used to posting only links with no personal
content.enforcement of these rules is questionable and may only
occur after a user has been reported for and incident.
21. Abuse
- Impersonation is not accepted.(crystal, 2009)
- this leaves a lot of current impersonators on thin ice.
Politicians and celebrities have many impersonators at this
point
22. Privacy such as addresses, credit card information not
permited (crystal, 2009) 23. this does not seem to be a large issue
at this stage but a good safeguard non the less. 24. Violence or
threats (crystal, 2009) 25. a reprehensible form of cyber bullying
that will only be acted upon after the person under attack has
complained. 26. Trademark & Copyright
- Trademark: usernames can be reclaimed on behalf of business or
individuals. (crystal, 2009) Copyright: Copyright infringement will
be acted upon but requires 'clear and complete notices of alleged
copyright infringement'. More than stated in the Trademark policy.
(crystal, 2009) There is are 6 items that must be submitted the
Twitter Copyright Agent for any review. (unknown , 2009)
27. References unknown. (2009, September). Twitter / Twitter
Terms of Service. Retrieved October 4, 2009,
fromhttps://twitter.com/tos . unknown. (2007, March). Twitter /
Twitter Privacy Policy. Retrieved October 4, 2009,
fromhttps://twitter.com/privacy . crystal. (2009, January). Twitter
Support :: The Twitter Rules. Retrieved October 4, 2009,
fromhttp://help.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/18311 .