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Privacy concerns with social networking services

On Facebook, there is one way to ensure protection against applications sharing personal information. On the privacy settings page, you can remove or turn off unwanted or spam applications. [19]

Twitter has admitted that they have scanned and imported their user's phone contacts onto the website database so that they can learn more about their users. Most users were unaware that Twitter is created this way for new users to search for their friends. Twitter has stated that they will have their privacy guidelines illustrated more clearly in the future.[39]

In 2015, after Facebook bought Instagram there was an option that Instagram could use its own users photos for ad purposes. This new policy was hidden in their user agreement. Users could opt out but the only way was to delete their account at before a certain deadline. Hiding this in their user agreement privacy agreement they were able to fool lots of people who did not understand what to look for. This is disclosure of information to third parties because Instagram is branching out our information to others.[40]