It seems that with the new year not only Instagram brings news in its Privacy Policies Foursquare announced a few hours ago that this document that regulates the operation of the geolocation social network has been modified to include various changes that directly affect user privacy and the amount of information that the owners of the establishments can access.A change that would be focused on improving this tool, in order to reach users unequivocally
Specifically, one of the changes affects the displayed username So far, when looking at the check-ins or other users' profile pages we only saw the name of stack and first initial However, As of next month, already in 2013, the full name of the user will be displayed Something that, according to what they say in Foursquare , it has been done by popular request, to avoid misunderstandings and be able to find the users we are looking for more easily.
The other change is more related to the owners of places and establishments, although it directly affects the privacy of users And, once the new terms come into force, said owners will have access to more user information Until now you can only consult the activity of the last three hours, however it has not transpired to what extent you can consult the owners of establishments the user's data. Something that is focused on improving and facilitating reaching potential customers and offering them more related issues
These changes in the Privacy Policies will be effective as of January 28 of 2013 Let's start. This is if there are no new changes in said statutes. However, it appears that Foursquare claims that the user himself will have the power to control privacy levelsfrom the menu Settings Thus, you can show the full name or not, or avoid that the owner of a local consult our information after having checked-in at his establishmentSo these changes are not as serious or as striking as those of Instagram
And we still have in our memory the commotion that a few changes in these statutes can produce in such a broad and committed community such as Instagram This photography social network, which was acquired by Facebook A few months ago, it has begun to undergo changes due to the desire to monetize its service and obtain an economic benefit her. Thus, there was talk that they could even sell the images of their users and use them as , or that the users would lose the property rights to your own photographs. Issues that did not take long to be denied in the face of complaints from users, who threatened to delete their accountIn fact, this very week many media reported that Instagram had lost up to 25 million usersFor this problem.Something that has been denied. Let's hope the same doesn't happen with Foursquare
