Facebook was founded in
2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his college classmates. Facebook is one of the
largest social media websites that allows people from around the world to
communicate. Facebook has been known to
invade the personal privacy of its users. Its main agenda is to sell the personal
private information of its users to advertisers. Users of facebook do not have a claim to
privacy when they are posting information about themselves for the world to see
and after all it is a social media website. According to Mello to date, courts have consistently held
that employees do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy regarding
online communication. Nothing is private when information that you post
is on your page and can be shared by your friends to post on someone else’s
page. Using the sharing privacy controls allows only certain people to see what
is on your page and you’re automatically signed into this so others can access
your private information. Log off of facebook when you are not using it to
protect your privacy as much as possible. Facebook’s facial recognition
software and policies a potential threat to privacy because when a user uploads
a photo it recognizes faces and tags users and creates a record of that photo. Users can then retrieve all photos containing
an image of a specific friend.
Reference
Mello, J. A. (2012). SOCIAL MEDIA,
EMPLOYEE PRIVACY AND CONCERTED ACTIVITY: BRAVE NEW WORLD OR BIG BROTHER?. Labor
Law Journal, 63(3), 165-173.
Facebook
Privacy. (2010, April 28). Facebook Privacy [Video file] Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smF1ZV7vikw
