Lab Assignment #18

Facebook
As a social network, its often times hard to set perimeters to guard users information. Facebook does have "principals" in its Rights and Responsibilities section available for us to see. The Rights and Responsibilities section says that we have complete ownership of all the information that we disclose. As owners of our information we decide whether we want our information to be disclosed. Or information is under the intellectual property rights. Anything that we have with an ip address can be used by facebook. However, there is the option to disclose the information. You can make your information, photos and endorsements only available to certain to certain people if you choose. My profile is only available openly to my friends that I have accepted. I have custom settings.

Chase
Chase has options on how your information is used and disclosed. There are 3 choices. The first way to make sure your personal information is not disclosed is Third-party Sharing. In third party sharing, you may tell Chase what information to not to share about you with non-financial companies outside of our family of companies. Even if you do tell Chase not to share, they may do so as required or permitted by law. The second choice is affiliate sharing, where you tell us not to share the following information about you within our family of companies Choice number is Affiliate marketing. You may tell Chase to limit our family of companies, such as our credit card, and securities affiliates, from marketing their products and services to you if you do not have an account or business relationship with them. I choose the first option for my account, because i know that most times, my information is not disclosed.

Howdy
Texas A&M has a Texas Public Information Act in effect in managing everyone's information in Howdy. Howdy is a central system for all TAMU faculty and staff. It holds their e-mails, records, and personal information. Howdy & TAMU don't own our information, therefor we dont have to make sure about it disclosing our information to the public. I am comfortable with the default settings.
Google Blooger

Twitter

Another social website, Twitter doesn't own the information you use, but you do have the option to keep some parts of information private. They use your information only for their servers to match up with ads and sponsers of Twitter, but they never disclose it, themselves to the public. You control that. My settings for my twitter account are kept at default.

Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo! Mail is apart of Yahoo. The information you provide can be shared if you choose for it to be. Your information isnt used publicly for Yahoo's advancement, but for yours. They take you information and cater to what your preferences are. Im okay with this and have allowed my account to stay with the default settings.