The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick & Mikko Hypponen

Author:Kevin Mitnick & Mikko Hypponen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

I’ll bet there are some photos that you now don’t want online. Chances are you won’t be able to take them all back, even if you could delete them from your social media site. That’s in part because once you post something to a social network, it’s owned by that network and out of your hands. And you agreed to this in the terms of service.

If you use the popular Google Photos app, even deleting a photo there doesn’t necessarily mean it’s gone. Customers have found that images are still there even after they delete the app from their mobile devices. Why? Because once the image hits the cloud, it is app-independent, meaning that other apps may have access to it and may continue to display the image you deleted.10

This has real-world consequences. Say you posted some stupid caption on a photo of someone who now works at the very company that you are applying to work for. Or you posted a photo of yourself with someone you don’t want your current spouse to know about. Although it may be your personal social network account, it is the social network’s data.

You’ve probably never taken the trouble to read the terms of use for any website where you post your personal data, daily experiences, thoughts, opinions, stories, gripes, complaints, and so on, or where you shop, play, learn, and interact, perhaps on a daily or even hourly basis. Most social networking sites require users to agree to terms and conditions before they use their services. Controversially, these terms often contain clauses permitting the sites to store data obtained from users and even share it with third parties.

Facebook has attracted attention over the years for its data storage policies, including the fact that the site makes it difficult to delete an account. And Facebook isn’t alone. Many websites have nearly identical language in their terms of use that would very likely scare you away if you had read the terms before signing on. Here’s one example, from Facebook, as of January 30, 2015:

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