In a Privacy Policy page, they explain about information they receive and how it is used, sharing and how to control it, minors and safety and other things user need to know.
GOOGLE
Google have privacy policy to make user feel comfortable and secure. There are many different ways you can use Google services – to search for and share information, to communicate with other people or to create new content. When you share information with Google, for example by creating a Google Account, Google can make those services even better – to show you more relevant search results and ads, to help you connect with people or to make sharing with others quicker and easier. As you use their services, Google want you to be clear how we’re using information and the ways in which you can protect your privacy.
Google Privacy Policy explains:
• What information they collect and why they collect it.
• How we use that information.
• The choices we offer, including how to access and update information.
Google have tried to keep it as simple as possible, but if you’re not familiar with terms like cookies, IP addresses, pixel tags and browsers, then read about these key terms first. Your privacy matters to Google so whether you are new to Google or a long-time users.
- Anonymity
FACEBOOK
Anonymity has become problem in a several website, including Facebook and Google. Facebook requires all members to use their real names and email addresses when joining the social network. A policy that has been difficult at times to enforce, as the prevalence of spam accounts or profiles assigned to people’s pets suggest.
Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s marketing director, has a fix for cyberbullying: stop people from doing anything online without their names attached. Zuckerberg, who is Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, argued that putting an end to anonymity online could help curb bullying and harassment on the web.
“I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away,” she said during a panel discussion on social media hosted Tuesday evening by Marie Claire magazine. “People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.”
According to the Anonymity problem, Facebook users must provide their real names and information. Here are some commitments user’s make to them relating to registering and maintaining the security of user account:
- You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
- You will not create more than one personal profile.
- If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.
- You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling your status update to an advertiser).
- You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.
- You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.
- You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
- You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
- You will not transfer your account (including any page or application you administer) to anyone without first getting our written permission.
- If you select a username for your account we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name).
GOOGLE
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has also made this suggestion, calling online anonymity “dangerous” and predicting that governments will eventually “demand” that people use their names for all online activity.
But the proposal to tie real-world identities to online actions is a controversial one, with many privacy and free speech advocates countering that anonymity is necessary to protect dissidents and other individuals, such as sexual abuse victims.
According to ReadWriteWeb, Schmidt said of anti-social behavior, "The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it."
Google also put this anonymity problem into their Privacy Policy. It is mention in this part:
Accessing and updating your personal information
Whenever you use their services, they aim to provide you with access to your personal information. If that information is wrong, they strive to give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it – unless they have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes. When updating your personal information, they may ask you to verify your identity before they can act on your request.
They may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort (for example, developing a new system or fundamentally changing an existing practice), risk the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes).
Where they can provide information access and correction, they will do so for free, except where it would require a disproportionate effort. They aim to maintain their services in a manner that protects information from accidental or malicious destruction. Because of this, after you delete information from thier services, they may not immediately delete residual copies from their active servers and may not remove information from their backup systems.
- Liability
FACEBOOK
Regarding to the liability issues and disputes, facebook has state that If anyone brings a claim against Facebook related to user actions, content or information on Facebook, user will indemnify and hold them harmless from and against all damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such claim.
They try to keep Facebook up, bug-free, and safe, but you use it at your own risk. They are providing Facebook as is without any express or implied warranties including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. They do not guarantee that Facebook will be safe or secure. Facebook is not responsible for the actions, content, information, or data of third parties, and user release them, their directors, officers, employees, and agents from any claims and damages, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with any claim you have against any such third parties.
They will not be liable to users for any lost profits or other consequential, special, indirect, or incidental damages arising out of or in connection with this statement or Facebook, even if they have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Their aggregate liability arising out of this statement or facebook will not exceed the greater of one hundred dollars ($100) or the amount user have paid them in the past twelve months. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to users. In such cases, facebook's liability will be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
GOOGLE
Liability for their Services statement
When permitted by law, Google, and Google’s suppliers and distributors, will not be responsible for lost profits, revenues, or data, financial losses or indirect, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages.
To the extent permitted by law, the total liability of Google, and its suppliers and distributors, for any claim under these terms, including for any implied warranties, is limited to the amount you paid them to use the services.
In all cases, Google, and its suppliers and distributors, will not be liable for any loss or damage that is not reasonably foreseeable.
- Security
FACEBOOK
Privacy and security mostly are the same. They do their best to keep Facebook safe, but they cannot guarantee it. In considering of security protection:
- They use ‘HTTPS’ to make the platform and the connection more secure
- They use OAuth 2.0
- They encrypt many of their services using SSL
- Facebook use ‘social authentication’ to identify your identity
GOOGLE
The Google team work hard to protect Google and their users from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of information they hold. In particular:
• They encrypt many of their services using SSL.
• They offer you two step verification when you access your Google Account, and a Safe Browsing feature in Google Chrome.
• They review their information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to systems.
• They restrict access to personal information to Google employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for them, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
- Regulation
FACEBOOK
Here are the Facebook regulation. They respect other people's rights, and expect the users to do the same :
- User will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law.
- Facebook can remove any content or information that user post on Facebook if they believe that it violates this Statement.
- Facebook will provide user with tools to help them protect your intellectual property rights.
- If they remove your content for infringing someone else's copyright, and you believe they removed it by mistake, Facebook will provide you with an opportunity to appeal.
- If you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, Facebook will disable your account when appropriate.
- You will not use Facebook copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Wall and 32665), or any confusingly similar marks, without their written permission.
- If you collect information from users, you will: obtain their consent, make it clear you (and not Facebook) are the one collecting their information, and post a privacy policy explaining what information you collect and how you will use it.
- You will not post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information on Facebook.
- You will not tag users or send email invitations to non-users without their consent.
GOOGLE
In addition to (and/or as some examples of) the violations described in the terms of service, users may not:
- Generate or facilitate unsolicited commercial email ("spam"). Such activity includes, but is not limited to :
- sending email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act or any other applicable anti-spam law
- imitating or impersonating another person or his, her or its email address, or creating false accounts for the purpose of sending spam
- data mining any web property (including Google) to find email addresses
- sending unauthorized mail via open, third-party servers
- sending emails to users who have requested to be removed from a mailing list
- selling, exchanging or distributing to a third party the email addresses of any person without such person's knowing and continued consent to such disclosure
- sending unsolicited emails to significant numbers of email addresses belonging to individuals and/or entities with whom you have no preexisting relationship
- Send, upload, distribute or disseminate or offer to do the same with respect to any unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, infringing, obscene, or otherwise objectionable content
- Intentionally distribute viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, corrupted files, hoaxes, or any other items of a destructive or deceptive nature
- Conduct or forward pyramid schemes and the like
- Transmit content that may be harmful to minors
- Impersonate another person (via the use of an email address or otherwise) or otherwise misrepresent yourself or the source of any email
- Illegally transmit another's intellectual property or other proprietary information without such owner's or licensor's permission
- Use Gmail to violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others
- Promote or encourage illegal activity
- Interfere with other Gmail users' enjoyment of the Service
- Create multiple user accounts in connection with any violation of the Agreement or create user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretenses
- Sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit for any unauthorized commercial purpose or transfer any Gmail account
- Modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of the Gmail Service
- Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the Gmail Service
- Reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of the Gmail Service
- Use the Gmail Service in connection with illegal peer-to-peer file sharing
- Access and equity
FACEBOOK
Facebook pays 100% of employee benefit premiums and 50% of any dependent premiums in the United States. This includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance and disability coverage, as well as the Employee Assistance Program. They also provide 50% reimbursement of most monthly gym fees. They comply with local regulations in all non-U.S. locations.
Facebook offers all eligible full-time, U.S. employees up to 4 months of Paid Parental Leave to attend to the birth or adoptive placement of your child. While an employee is on Paid Parental Leave, Facebook will continue your health benefits, stock vesting, 401 (k), gym membership and Purple Tie as if you had continued to work full-time. Facebook also will provide $4,000 baby cash to all new custodial parents who are full-time U.S. employees at the time of birth or placement.
GOOGLE
Google's stock performance following its initial public offering has enabled many early employees to be competitively compensated. After the company's IPO, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt requested that their base salary be cut to $1. Subsequent offers by the company to increase their salaries have been turned down, primarily because their main compensation continues to come from owning stock in Google. Before 2004, Schmidt was making $250,000 per year, and Page and Brin each earned a salary of $150,000.
- Conclusion
Facebook and Google were work hard to overcome an ethical issues in their company. They make their company structure and system even better from year to year. Athough, many ethical issues has come from the user itselve. Many user put their privacy things on the internet or even Facebook,and if theres a leak they will blame on Facebook because their privacy it is not protected by Facebook. From my opinion, internet (Facebook and Google) it is a public media that can not protect your privacy even if you want to pretect it. So if you put samothing on internet, it will become public feed. If you do not want to make it public,then do not put it on the internet. Privacy comes first from your self.
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