Social Media Videos Social Media Privacy 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), what right do users have regarding their data held by social media platforms?
- The right to demand platforms delete all their uploaded videos
- The right to know what personal data is collected and request its deletion (Correct answer)
- The right to unlimited free storage
- The right to ban advertisers from their account
Correct answer: The right to know what personal data is collected and request its deletion
CCPA grants California residents rights to access, delete, and opt out of the sale of their personal information.
Question 2: You notice a video of you posted by someone else on Facebook without your consent. What is the most appropriate first step?
- Report the video using Facebook's 'Report' feature (Correct answer)
- Create a competing video
- Block the person posting
- Change your own account password
Correct answer: Report the video using Facebook's 'Report' feature
Reporting the video flags it for Facebook's review team to assess potential policy violations or privacy breaches.
Question 3: What is 'scraping' in the context of social media video privacy?
- Editing unwanted parts from your videos
- Automatically collecting public user data from platforms without permission (Correct answer)
- Removing metadata from video files
- Compressing large video files
Correct answer: Automatically collecting public user data from platforms without permission
Scraping uses automated bots to harvest public data (including video metadata and profile info) from platforms at scale.
Question 4: Which feature on Instagram helps prevent strangers from saving screenshots or screen recordings of your Stories?
- Story notifications
- Story replay limit
- Blocking unknown accounts proactively
- No built-in prevention exists; Instagram cannot block screen recording (Correct answer)
Correct answer: No built-in prevention exists; Instagram cannot block screen recording
Instagram does not have a technical feature that prevents screen recording of Stories, unlike some other platforms.
Question 5: What does the term 'shadow banning' mean regarding video privacy and visibility?
- Blocking a user without notifying them
- Secretly limiting a user's content reach without informing the user (Correct answer)
- Deleting videos that violate copyright
- Encrypting a user's private messages
Correct answer: Secretly limiting a user's content reach without informing the user
Shadow banning reduces the visibility of a user's posts without their knowledge, often as a soft moderation action.
Question 6: When a third-party app requests permission to access your YouTube account to 'manage your videos,' what privacy risk should you consider?
- The app may upload videos faster than usual
- The app could view, edit, or delete your videos and access account data (Correct answer)
- The app improves your video SEO automatically
- The app blocks unwanted comments
Correct answer: The app could view, edit, or delete your videos and access account data
Granting 'manage videos' scope gives third-party apps broad control over your channel, including potential misuse of your data.
Question 7: What is the safest approach when using public Wi-Fi while uploading videos to social media?
- Upload only videos shorter than 60 seconds
- Use a VPN to encrypt your connection (Correct answer)
- Log out and back into your account before uploading
- Disable Bluetooth during upload
Correct answer: Use a VPN to encrypt your connection
A VPN encrypts your internet traffic, preventing eavesdroppers on public Wi-Fi from intercepting your data or login credentials.
Social Media Videos Social Media Privacy 3
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), what right do users have regarding their data held by social media platforms?