“Ignorance is explicit consent” when it comes to social media privacy
Posted Jan 28, 2015 6:53 am.
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A reminder about safeguarding your online information for Data Privacy Day.
While sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram help us stay connected to friends and family no matter where we are, experts say be careful what you share.
University of Lethbridge Information Security Manager Kevin Vadnais tells City News there are a number of reasons why you need to stay on top of ‘terms of use’ agreements and changes to privacy settings.
“The way that they got the legal agreements worded ignorance is not bliss, ignorance is explicit consent. So an example for me, I had a birthday recently and Facebook and Google knew about it, and I didn’t want them to know about it but they have changed some of their privacy settings that I had ignored, and so I had to go in and fix those up,” Vadnais explained.
Social media websites make money by using our information which is constantly updated and sold over and over again.
