Online Free-Service Impeach Privacy

Online Free Services Impeach Privacy Gap
The United States is a culture of sharing. People share their personal lives on almost every aspect with social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The idea of free online services has attracted people’s natural instinct to indulge themselves into these free services. What they do not know is what these “free-services” ask in return. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have revolutionized how people connect with one another and the way people retrieve resources, which also allows massive private information accessible to organizations. In the article called “Twitter’s Lucrative Data Mining Business” published in The Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Dwoskin talks about Twitter’s disclosure that its company
In the article “Facebook Immorally Exploits Its Users” publish in Netiquette and Online Ethics in 2013, Kevin Kelleher claims that Facebook takes advantage of its users by selling their information to big corporations in contempt of its users’ rights. Facebook has been selling its data by manipulating people’s “sharing” policies to allow the company to own people’s data, which Facebook has taken for granted with disregard of its users. According to Kelleher, “many of the most popular applications, or ‘apps’, on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information -- in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names -- to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies” (Kelleher). Moreover, Facebook’s users are not allowed to own the company’s stocks when in fact they “are digital sharecroppers, but it’s not [their] work lives being exploited for the gain of others, it’s [their] personal lives” (Kelleher). In the excerpt “Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty, with Real Dangers”, published in a book called Opposing Viewpoints Series: Privacy, Nicholas Carr argues that people’s rights are being violated and exposed to “criminal harm and marketing manipulation” (21). He encourages people to protect
In the book Privacy in the Age of Big Data, Theresa M. Payton and Theodore Claypoole talk about how “digital devices have made our busy lives a little easier and they do great things for us too--we get just-in-time coupons, directions, and connections with loved ones while stuck on an airplane runways” (Summary). However, these devices invade people’s privacy without their consent whenever they use the free services. Although many people do not know how data is being collected and used, they can be informed and learn about how to protect their privacy while continuing to benefit from the ever growing innovations and technology that improves how people connect with others via social media. Also, social media help online businesses that outreach consumers onto international, which brings prosperity to the