Data privacy is generally focused on the use and governance of personal data and personally identifiable information. It could include establishing protocols to ensure that personal data is processed, shared, and used appropriately. It is considered a concept adopted in the past few decades dating back to the 1970s, way before the internet and computers became commonly used. In 1974, the US Privacy Act was enacted to implement government databases and the protection of citizens' right to privacy. This act aimed to make sure that government agencies were using and practicing fairness when gathering and handling private data.

With increased innovations in the world, it has been made possible to communicate and share ideas with others using various social media platforms. One of the most popular social platforms used by most of the world population is Facebook, which has seen a steady increase in the number of users across all the continents in the world. Users on this platform and other platforms such as Twitter and Amazon are expected to give out critical information to the company about them to sign up to these platforms, for example, email, phone number, username, and passwords. In their privacy policies, these three companies define the information that is collected from users, as well as the information provided with third parties and affiliates is shared. Some of the similarities between these companies is that they request the IP address of the clients when they access the platform and use technologies such as cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends. It should be noted that one of Amazon's policies refers to the use of the application by minors. On the other hand, there are some terms and conditions in these platforms which allow them to gather, and store classified information related to their users without the consent of these customers. Activities that a social media user involves themselves in while online such as the pages visited, purchases made, contact list and user location, are always stored on the servers of these platforms. This data can be used later for some major purpose to give a better network and data to be used in things such as advertising (Winegar & Sunstein, 2019).

The new technologies pose ethical problems that are not entirely new, except for the dimensions that they now reach and that have added greater complexity to our way of seeing the world and interacting with it. In my opinion, the analysis of these privacy statements regarding ethics policies related to information content transparency, and user control is not very good, since these companies have been scrutinized for using customer information. These companies are suspected of reusing private information they have about their clients and vendors who utilize their applications to sell them to other companies. A consumer study conducted in the US found that 86% of social media platforms are concerned about how these companies use their data (Ali, Dolui & Antonelli, 2017). They are also much concerned whenever they are using smart devices since they are considered agents of data collection by these companies. Consumers have very little control of how these companies use their data, and very few believe that they can regulate how their data is to be applied. The utilization of private data by these companies is considered to greatly impact their privacy, and many are not aware of the steps they are required to take to protect their rights. Facebook data privacy scandal is considered to have cantered in collecting private data of around 87 million users by a firm referred to as Cambridge Analytica. Facebook facilitated this company to get access to personalized data from Facebook accounts. Facebook also has a record of having inadequate ethical measures to make sure that users' data is protected (Asghar, Dn, Miorandi & Chlamtac, 2017).

the following questions in relation to the post above: You mention that Facebook does not appear to protect customer data.Do you think that is a direct result of their privacy statement itself or not following the statement they have?If you think it is the statement, what would you change and why?