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Tweetchat: Social Media Bill of Rights

In 2010, attendees of a conference at San Jose State University worked together to craft a Social Media Bill of Rights. The full text (as found in Privacy advocates craft social media 'bill of rights' is duplicated below.

"We the users expect social network sites to provide us the following rights in their Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, and implementations of their system:

1. Honesty: Honor your privacy policy and terms of service.

2. Clarity: Ensure that policies and terms of service are easy to understand.

3. Freedom of speech: Don't censor without a clear policy and justification.

4. Empowerment: Support privacy-enhancing and assistive technologies.

5. Security: Treat my data as securely as your own, and notify me if it is compromised.

6. Data minimization: Minimize the information I am required to provide and share with others.

7. Control: Let me control my data, and don't share it with others unless I agree first.

8. Predictability: Don't change who or what sees my data without my consent.

9. Right to know: Show me how you are using my data and allow me to see who and what has access to it.

10. Right to self-define: Let me create more than one identity and use pseudonyms. Do not link them without my permission.

11. Right to appeal: Allow me to appeal disciplinary actions.

12. Right to leave: Allow me to delete my account, and take my data with me."

Here are two different ways to participate in the Tweetchat for the Social Media Bill of Rights:

Choose one of the items on the SoMe Bill of Rights and illustrate it with a clever image or drawing. Share it in a tweet.

Find a news story that relates to one of the items on the SoMe Bill of Rights and share it.

Use the hashtags #CNSoMe and #rights in your tweet.