LAST LAB POST!

For the last blog post, we had to find five different sites and review their privacy policy and what information one could withhold as an user. I decided to choose Facebook, Chase, iTunes, BlogSpot and Sprint. These are typical sites that I use almost on an everyday basis. Except for Facebook and Chase, my settings with the services remain set to the default standard. To keep it simple, i simple just made a bullited list for each service. I copied and pasted straight from the sites, therefore, the compiled list below is how you can find the information:

www.facebook.com
www.chase.com
iTunes Store (through my iTunes on my computer)
www.blogger.com
www.sprint.com

Facebook

RIGHTS TO PRIVACY
1. Access Device and Browser Information. When you access Facebook from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages you visit.
2. Information from other users. We may collect information about you from other Facebook users, such as when a friend tags you in a photo or video, provides friend details, or indicates a relationship with you. You can limit who can see that you have been tagged in a photo or video – which we refer to as photos or videos “of me” – in your privacy settings.
3. We may make information about the location of your computer or access device and your age available to Facebook –enhanced applications and websites in order to help them implement appropriate security measures and control the distribution of age-appropriate content.

WHAT CAN I WITHHOLD?
1. Who can view my profile.
2. Who can see photographs of me.
3. Who can see my personal information.

CHASE

RIGHTS TO PRIVACY
1. We may share information about you within our family as required or permitted by law. This helps us to offer you financial products and services, such as loans, deposits, investments, credit cards and insurance.
2. To provide services and to help meet your needs, we collect information about you from various sources.

* We get information from your requests for our products or services. One example is income on loan applications.
* We get information about your transactions with us and with others. For example, we have your account balance information.
* We get information, such as your credit history, from credit bureaus.

3. We may share information about you with companies outside of our family as permitted by law, including retailers, auto dealers, auto makers, direct marketers, membership clubs and publishers. We may also share information about you in other ways, as required or permitted by law. Here are some examples of ways that we share information.
* To protect against fraud.
* To respond to a subpoena.
* To service your account.
* To report to a credit bureau.
* With your consent.

WHAT CAN I WITHHOLD?
1. I get alerts on my cell phone if I withdraw too much from my checking account.
2. I get emails everyday alerting me of how much i have left in my checking account and how much i withdrew from it the previous day. This allows me to make sure that I have enough money in my account and that no one else it using my account.
3. In account settings, I am able to change who can view my banking account or who can withdraw information about my financial status.

ITUNES

RIGHTS TO PRIVACY
1. We may ask for your personal information when you’re discussing a service issue on the phone with an associate, downloading a software update, registering for a seminar, participating in an online survey, registering your products, or purchasing a product.
2. When you interact with Apple, we may collect personal information relevant to the situation, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, and contact preferences; your credit card information and information about the Apple products you own, such as their serial numbers and date of purchase; and information relating to a support or service issue.
3. We may use personal information to provide products that you have requested as well as for auditing, research, and analysis to improve Apple’s products.

WHAT CAN I WITHHOLD?
1. Like most other services, you can choose to have email alerts on new featured songs and purchases.
2. You can choose to give or withhold personal information that will help iTunes target you based on your previous purchases.
3. You can choose not to share music. Meaning, your name will not come up on a search bar.

BLOG SPOT

RIGHTS TO PRIVACY
1. If you choose to use our transliteration feature, we will save your transliteration corrections, so that we can improve the service.
2. Google servers automatically record information about your use of the service, such as when you use Blogger and the frequency and size of data transfers. Information displayed or clicked in the Blogger interface (including UI elements, settings, and other information) is also recorded. If you are logged in we may associate that information with your account.
3. If you choose to use Blogger Mobile, we will record your phone number when you send a text message, photos, or SMS to or from Google. Your phone number may be associated with your Google Account or, if you do not have a Google Account, with some other similar account ID. We often generate this account ID based on your device and hardware IDs, so if you change your device or hardware, you will have to re-associate this new device or hardware with your account before we can authenticate you.

WHAT CAN I WITHHOLD?
.. as you know, I am an avid user of "Blogger", however my profile is set to all the basic, default settings. If you are thinking of becoming a user or are already one, here are some settings you can change.

WHAT CAN I WITHHOLD?
... with BlogSpot, the information you can withhold is much like facebook. It deals with displaying your personal information for the viewing pleasure of the public. Therefore, I just chose three very basic ones.

1. You can choose to make your first and last name public or not.
2. You can hid your "about me" information, including your email and personal interests.
3. You can choose to follow public or private blogs.

SPRINT

RIGHTS TO PRIVACY
1. We may collect information about your device, your computer, and online activities. For example, we collect your device's and computer's IP address, the date and time of your access and the type of browser you use.
2. Information we collect when we provide you with Services includes when your wireless device is turned on, how your device is functioning, device signal strength, where it is located, what device you are using, what you have purchased with your device, how you are using it, and what sites you visit.
3. We use your personal information for a variety of purposes, including providing you with Services. We use your personal information to do things like:

* Process your orders, Protect our and our customers' rights and property, Respond to legal process and emergencies, Develop or inform you of new products and services, Anonymize or aggregate personal information for various purposes like market analysis or traffic flow analysis and reporting, Customize or personalize your experience with our Services, Customize or personalize advertising and communications to bring you information about products and services of Sprint Nextel or others that may interest you, including co-branded offers, Monitor, evaluate or improve our Services, systems, or networks.

WHAT CAN I WITHHOLD?
1. You can limit your account so only certain people can walk into a store and request information. For example, I go in all the time to check on mobile upgrades, however, my dad has our account set to extra privacy. So, i have to provide Sprint with his birthdate, password and occasional social security number (depending on the strictness of the store. Sad? Yes. But security measures do vary.)
2. Although Sprint has your personal information, you can choose to have Sprint alert you via email or text message on certain issues dealing with your account, personal upgrades, coupons, etc ..
3. You can sign up to change or update your account plan online.