instagram

Lets talk terms ... *

Instant photo sharing, instant updates for your followers.

Instagram is an application with multiple links to friends,

conversations and images.

Whether you are a new user or have already started

uploading...... you should knowthere are limits

to your rights andcontent ownership.

* Instagram is a file sharing application allowing users to upload images and videos to share with

followers of their social media sites like

Facebook, Twitter or Instagram itself.

* Instagram aims to make it easy for users to uploadand manipulate their images.

•Download the app, upload your images, add some tags and users will find you.

(Latorre-Martínez, & Iñíguez-Berrozpe, 2014, p. 18)

But wait ! Have you read Instagram's Terms

of Use?

Are you familiar with Instagram's Privacy

Policy?

Do you know your rights? Or the rights you may be

giving up?

Are you ready to relinquish control over

your content?

Do you know that facebook owns instagram?(Privacy Policy, Instagram, 2014)

Lets look at what users of the service agree to:

* User access to Instagram can be terminated without notice or liability to the user.

* Photos from a terminated account may persist on Instagram but will not be accessible

through the terminated account .

* Users grant Instagram a fully paid, transferable licence to use their content worldwide.

* Users agree to pay any fees or other money owed by reason of their content.

(Terms and Conditions, Instagram, 2014)

And what about user privacy?

What information are users uploading with their photos?

Tags can make it easy for users to find one another and location specific content.

What about the dangers ofyoung users uploading geotagged

images in real time.

Future privacy can be compromised by the data trail created today.(Lessig, 1998)

But it can also enable surveillance and predatory behaviour (Sanborn, Shields, & Snow, 2014).

And consider that Instagram terms are dictated by Facebook. Hence the complication of these terms following Facebook’s acquisition.

Sanveneroa, 2014, pp. 92 -93

The online availability of historical data

enables searchingas well as

monitoring.

(Lessig, 1998, p. 1)

A user’s loss of access to data does not equal deletion

of data.

me ... now

me ... years from

now

me ... soon

What users can do . . . .

Take the time to read and digest the terms and conditions of new and existing media tools.

Check out an applications feedback in forums and online articles.

Consider the application’s terms and limits in the context of current and future needs and uses.

Educate young users about online responsibilities, dangers and technological ethics (Lyon, 2002, p. 247).

Create limited versions of online content by watermarking images, disabling geotags and limit linking between multiple applications.

Best tip - Enjoy the applications thatwork for you, but use them on your terms.

References

Instagram. (2014). Instagram Help Centre. Retrieved from https://help.instagram.com/158476944298556

Instagram. (2014). Privacy Policy. Retrieved from http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Instagram. (2014). Terms of Use. Retrieved from http://instagram.com/about/legal/terms/

Latorre-Martínez, M. P. & Iñíguez-Berrozpe, T. (2014). Image-focused social media for a market analysis of tourism consumption. International Journal of Technology Management, 64 (1). 17-30. Retrieved from http://inderscience.metapress.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/content/218u40116v167843/fulltext.pdf

Lessig, L. (1998). The Architecture of Privacy (2nd draft.). In Proceedings of the Taiwan Net 1998 conference held in Taipei, Taiwan, March 1998. Retrieved from http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/works/lessig/architecture_priv.pdf

Lyon, D. (2002) Everyday Surveillance: Personal Data and Social Classification. Information, Communication, and Society, 5(1). 242-257. Retrieved from http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/cyberspace/lyon_ics.pdf

NYC Counsel. (2014). Who Owns Photos and Videos Posted on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter? NYC Counsel. Retrieved from http://www.nyccounsel.com/business-blogs-websites/who-owns-photos-and-videos-posted-on-facebook-or-twitter/

Sanborn, V. E., Shields, C. E. & Snow, V. (2014). How the "Rich Kids of Instagram" create poor security risks. Estate Planning, 41(4). 18-22. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/docview/1530079601

Sanveneroa, R. (2014). Social media and our misconceptions of the realities. Information & Communications Technology Law, 22(2).89-108. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13600834.2013.805923

The Guardian. (2014). Instagram users begin fightback against stolen photos. The Guardian: US News Blog. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/technology/us-news-blog/2013/feb/05/instagram-users-fightback-stolen-photos