Rough Draft

Is a person’s privacy secure in the hands of social media?  Know the truth.

Who isn’t on social media nowadays? I myself decided to join social media at the age of 15 without knowing or reading the rights I have with having these social medias Instagram,Facebook,TikTok, and so much more. People have the habit to not read the long rights of these social media that want you to approve too and you just skip to the bottom and say accept , that was a mistake and you’ll find out why. This being a bibliography is writing what catches me to study more of what I am interested in to be able to learn more both me and the readers. I’m sure just for myself and others reading will get caught up on this since it’s social media, a database that mostly everyone uses. Social media is basic in most people’s eyes so why not talk about it , why not learn more about it since we use it on a daily basis, just like that I need to know more. Although I wished I knew more about when I decided to be on social media from the age 13 and now seeing how the world has progressed with kids being on social media by the age 1 even if it’s their parents controlling it.  While the world of social media changes exactly how much they change with the security of your privacy, do they tell you what they can or cannot see? I didn’t think about it that much until. One day my friend got hacked by someone from a whole other country and was able to control her social media page got her page back after a whole week … a whole week that a stranger was able to see her messages and much more, on an app that everyone uses and supposedly provides top security somehow these hackings have been getting popular throughout the years. 

Learning and researching the rights people have Data privacy laws was eye opening. You don’t seem to care much about something you use everyday until you look and learn more about from the New York Times “The State of Consumer Data Privacy Laws in the US (And Why It Matters)” published by Thorin Klosowski “Currently, privacy laws are a cluttered mess of different sectoral rules. “Historically, in the US we have a bunch of disparate federal [and state] laws,” said Amie Stepanovich, executive director at the Silicon Flatirons Center at Colorado Law. “[These] either look at specific types of data, like credit data or health information,” Stepanovich said, “or look at specific populations like children, and regulate within those realms” . What they are basically saying is these privacy laws that were created from the state are disordered and in the country I live in the US the laws here are diverse. To understand it more clearly the US doesn’t have a singular law that covers the privacy of all types of data that puts that any person is able to look at anything specific about you whether you know about it or not. 

It’s wrong it doesn’t feel safe if all a person wants to do is just be on social media but since there isn’t no law that puts a person into a none privacy agreement because the database you apply to their network in now owe to them because there are no federal privacy laws regulating many companies, they’re pretty much free to do what they want with the data. The companies that have your data don’t have to notify you if they share or sell your data to (data brokers), if your data is breached or exposed to unauthorized parties there isn’t any national law standards for them to follow to notify you. People, myself included, think our data , our privacy are protected until we consumers aren’t able to understand the information that supposedly these companies are supposed to help with. That goes with when you open a website or sign into social media you see those long paragraphs or “Cookies” that you just go all the way to the bottom to press “ Accept” we all do it. Those companies know people who wanna pass through it just won’t read it and I’m sure if you did the meaning when you see that your information is now in their database.