Notes to case 6, Facebook privacy

I know Marnie has taken more detailed notes since we made these, but I wanted to go ahead and post anyway.

The below notes have ideas/research conduced by several team members. Some pieces may say similar things but hopefully in total they will be useful to the case presenters.

Case #6

Is Facebook going too far and is it safe to use? We could stop using our Facebooks,We could email Facebook and tell them that they need to automatically set our Facebooks to “private” or atleast tell us about our Facebooks going “public” and where we can fix the setting to “private” if we wish.

Mathew:

Case #1 the essential question is whether it is right for them to be talking about homosexuality in the bar and whether john aught to go over and argue with them. The two main resolutions would be John aught to go talk to them (depends a lot on location if it is a bar or a bar where lots of homosexual people go then it’s a big difference). Also if he aught to just go ask them to be a little quieter with their opinions or if he should start a argument about beliefs.

The other resolution is that he aught not to go talk to them: You should keep to yourself in a bar and that he shouldn’t go and confront them because it is their business.

Marnie/Dan: (I think, might have been someone else)

Essential question: whether it is right for Facebook to sell your information and change your privacy settings in updates

Aught: Facebook states in their terms and conditions that they own anything that you post on Facebook and that they can change your privacy settings in a update back to the default. They also usually send out a reminder. So facebook aught to be able to do that

Aught not: It violates your privacy for Facebook to be changing your settings so anyone can see the stuff you posted on Facebook. Facebook should not be able to sell and use your personal information.

Also the issue of keeping it free. We could pay to have a facebook, and have it be more private.

By paying for facebook, it would be less effective, so maybe having your information sold is a necessary evil.

They should make the statement a lot more clear, and shorter.

By doing all this, are they respecting our privacy in general? Is it a respectful relationship?